But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

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

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

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

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.