When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

the key to human development is building on who you already are

To fish in troubled waters.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian.

It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.

There's not enough of me left over.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.