“I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poe...” — Kevin Young Quote

“I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.”

“Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering 'Walk on By' by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters' vanilla-seeming 'We've Only Just Begun,' and you realize soul's insistence on transformation: Mayfield in particular makes the song not just about love but the start of revolution.”

“One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.”

“You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.”

“We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.”

“Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.”