It's our job to just do as much as we can to enlighten the people about it and to represent it by playing it with some integrity. That's what I try to do.

I try to put a lot of our music in my music - by that I mean of American music.

Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.