If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

People don't really think other people are the same.

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.

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.

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

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

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