We've been robbed. Robbed by the 3 percent. The 3 percent has taken away our heritage. We've got to get involved and take it back.

It's frustrating because everyone wants this heritage building taken care of, fixed properly, but you couldn't get away with that in the private sector, this very loose use of a client's money,

I was in a no-win situation. To 50 percent of the world, the Confederate flag represents heritage, but to the other half it means racism. I'm not here to draw that line. This is a restaurant. It's not a place for politics.

He's going to give 100 percent every day to get better. Now he knows what it's going to take to get here.

Ten percent does sound astronomical, but we've taken some zeros along the way.

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.