It's good to be on the radar screen of the industry.

The new lift was put in for the sport of skiing. That's pretty damn cool. Because of our numbers, though, it could become economically viable.

There's an absurdly picky ski patrol this year. To us this is epic: If you have a job you don't like, you quit.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.