Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.