Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

We Don't Have The Leadership Or The Understanding Of The Value Of This, And When Your Political Systems And Your Economic Systems Start To Fail, It's Only A Cultural Understanding That Allows You To Reconstruct Them And To Get Back To Who You Are. For Some Reason, It Hasn't Dawned On Us Yet.

We No Longer Want To Be A Melting Pot, Because We Don't Understand What Is Already Melted.

When You Study Our Greatest Artists, You Will Find That They Give Us A Key To Understand How To Deal With Each Other, And That Our Bloodlines Are Intertwined. It's Not Hyphenated America. That There Is An America, And It Is Expressed In Those Arts. It Gives Us A Key To Figure Out How To Negotiate With Each Other, And It Tells Us Actually Who We Are.

I Believe In Professionalism, But Playing Is Not Like A Job. You Have To Be Grateful To Have The Opportunity To Play.

Don't Worry About What Others Say About Your Music. Pursue Whatever You Are Hearing... But If Everybody Really Hates Your Music Maybe You Could Try Some Different Approaches.