Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.