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Young People Should Travel, And They Don’t. You Can’t Know If You Don’t Go.

Music Was The One Thing I Could Control. It Was The One World That Offered Me Freedom. When I Played Music, My Nightmares Ended. My Family Problems Disappeared. I Didnt Have To Search For Answers. The Answers Lay No Further Than The Bell Of My Trumpet And My Scrawled, Pencilled Scores. Music Made Me Full, Strong, Popular, Self-reliant And Cool.

My Earliest Memories Are Being Pinned To A Fence With A Switchblade.

All The Jazz Guys Had Interracial Relationships, And Even The Ladies Did. Over The Years, Interracial Relationships Have Been A Hip, Almost Defiant Thing, A Way Of Saying "nobody Can Put A Boundary Around Me."

My Dream Is To Put Together A Performance Of The Evolution Of Black Music With Cirque Du Soleil . I Would Also Like To Do Street Opera And Children's Books. But Even As I Work Toward These Things, I Want To Simplify My Life.