He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

If people ask me like who I would like to be I will say Like Larry Cohen, his movie with the Phone Booth, blowed my mind.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

History is full of surprises.

I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

I've always internalized things

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!