With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.