What I Really Have In My Head,

I Feel Like A Lot Of The Fundamental Material, I've Assimilated. So Now The Question Is: Am I Going To Really Get Into My Spiritual Inheritance Of Music And Really Develop My Abilities?

I Try To Put A Lot Of Our Music In My Music - By That I Mean Of American Music.

Even In These Times, There Are Still Neighbors That Will Turn Their Backs On Neighbors.

But You Listen To Coltrane And That's Something Human, Something That's About Elevation. It's Like Making Love To A Woman. It's About Something Of Value, It's Not Just Loud. It Doesn't Have That Violent Connotation To It. I Wanted To Be A Jazz Musician So Bad, But I Really Couldn't. There Was No Way I Could Figure Out To Learn How To Play.

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.