They passed it on with no (thumbs) up or down. Whether citizens get credit or not, it resulted in a hung jury.

We really like the concept. But we'd just like McGregor Boulevard taken care of better.

We feel like we really accomplished something. We helped usher in a higher awareness of the arts in Lee County.

Finding someone crazy enough to let us invade their house was always difficult.

We've run out of a little bit of energy after 10 years. To most it's not a sad thing. We're proud of what we did. We introduced a great number of individual artists to the community and vice versa.

I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.