When we first approached The ARTS at Marks Garage and other galleries about MAMo, they really embraced the idea and ran with it.

I noticed when Marcus came back last year, he was hungry about everything. He was hungry about finishing everything first, about doing everything right. I took that mindset this spring, and I'm trying to do that each and every day.

When they (police) first approached me at The Falls, I provided them with my real name, my real address, social security number, birth date, so on and so forth.

Even when I was a free agent last year, my agent approached Milwaukee. Milwaukee was one of the first places on my list.

So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple idea, you know - wow, a musical of John! But I've said no. This time, I said yes, because I liked the idea of having these different actors playing John. Because in the years after John's passing, John has transformed into something else. People in Asia think of him as their hero. People in Africa think of him as their hero. He was a hero for the whole world, and not just a white hero. So it's great to have a black performer singing as John. For me, this play is a revolution, a quiet revolution.

One of the chief considerations of the decorative arts galleries was that they should be suitable for the display of textiles, and for this initial exhibition we have chosen mainly textiles from the 15th through the 17th centuries,