We do want to get a maximum use out of everything we've got. These are the jewels in our city's crown. So let's show them off.

It's difficult to get things to pay for themselves right out of the gate. It would take a while for us to get to even approaching it paying for itself.

One of the things that is really needed in cultural services is somebody to look at the mayor's big projects. They need somebody there at the right hand of the director working for the mayor, pulling those pieces together to make sure the vision gets across.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.