I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly

Everybody's funny if you love them.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.

Nobody can hear you read music.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.