I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.

Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.