Jazz is democracy in music.
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.
If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.