"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."

"Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together."

"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more."

"And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."

"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."

"And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead."

"The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country."