He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.
I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.