Once The Jazz Musician Learns

You Know, Or Three Kinds Of Ice Cream Bars And You'd See This And Like This... Okay They Could Clearly Benefit From Some More Choices And I Remember Having These Discussions With The Japanese Because They You Know They Often Like To Go To Hawaii For Vacation Because It Was Definitely Much Cheaper For Them And I Would Ask Them, "so When You Go To Hawaii, You Know Do Eat All These Other Things?"

You Know, You Take A Little Infant And You Turn On The Music Mobile On Their Crib And You Find That If You Give Them A Music Mobile Which Turns On Automatically Versus A Music Mobile In Which - If By Chance Their Little Legs Or Their Little Hands Accidentally Touches It - Turns On They're So Much More Excited If By Chance It Turns On Because They Touched It, So That Desire For Control Over Their Environment Is... Really Appears From Very Early On And If You Look At Children's First Words, "no, Yes."

When We Speak Of Choice, What We Mean Is The Ability To Exercise Control Over Ourselves And Our Environment. In Order To Choose, We Must First Perceive That Control Is Possible.

Being A Sikh Meant Having To Do What Mom And Dad Said, And Going To Temple, And Mom And Dad Choosing Who I Would Marry. But Going To An American School Taught Me That I Was The One Who's Supposed To Make Those Choices.

You Get To Decide How You're Going To Look And What You're Going To Be When You Grow Up And When People Learned That My Parents Actually Had An Arranged Marriage People Thought That Was The Most Horrific Thing On Earth. I Mean How Could Anybody Allow Their Marriage Of All Things To Be Prescribed By Somebody Else?