It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!
I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of differen...
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.
It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.
In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is , something which is 'wholly mother'.
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.
Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.
To endow clock time with numinous meaning <...> [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.
