I love the Comedy Cellar. The AUDIENCE has no expectations because they don't KNOW me. It's GREAT. It's only winning - if I bomb, they just say, 'Oh, the FRENCH GUY sucks.' But if I do well, then they remember me.

In WORLD WAR II, JAZZ ABSOLUTELY was the music of FREEDOM, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

The more SPACE and EMPTINESS you can create in yourself, then you can let the REST of the WORLD come in and fill you up.

If BITTER party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the AIMS of politicians, the role of political PARTIES and the political process itself.