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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

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Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

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I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

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