Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.