I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

The more isolated folks are in any way, whether by language or geographic location - they tend to have less access to information and resources.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

They're not being trained to forecast. They're being trained to read the data and interpret it.

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.

Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.