Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not like I was abused as a kid or anything. I had a pretty comfortable childhood with parents who took good care of me. But resentment exists, and some of it goes into the music. Some of it goes into physical activity.

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.