Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the worst way to explain the mysteries of life, except for Creationism.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.