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

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

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.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.