When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.