Jason Moran

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.