I see music as fluid architecture.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.
The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.
Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.
The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars. ” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?
I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.