Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

The heavyweight division is always very intriguing. These are the heavy hitters, you know? Every time when you do a mistake, it's the end of the fight. So you have to be careful all the time, and this is what makes this division so intriguing, so exciting for the fans.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.