I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.

Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.

Spreading the wealth and giving other assistant coaches their due is critical.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

My dad was a theater major, and he's acted, and he's done so much television and radio and film, and seeing how much fun he had doing that totally made me want to try.