He is a very skilled performer. The audience is in for quite a treat.

We usually have the university faculty perform both semesters, and we have a small budget to invite in some guest artists, as part of our chamber series. International artists are a better deal for us, because we get a little more help with funding to bring them in. And, we're really lucky to get them.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.

It's always been difficult to make a good record.