So much hope in the room and out there in the country.

We're just hope that this helps Cincinnati, Ohio and the rest of the country focus on the needs of these people. They should be protected. There should be appropriate care for them. They are not invisible.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.

At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.