He's kind of like the Pied Piper.

He definitely goes above and beyond the call of duty working with those kids. I know very few people as generous as Rick Holmes, and I know very few people who care about kids as much as he does.

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.