Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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