This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

Trumpet players are just belligerant, and cocky, and you know, just hard-headed.

Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.