I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

The only word for love is everybody's name.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.