That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.

It's hard to think about 20 to 30 years down the road. Most people want to use the money now - it's tough.

Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.