I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself - mentally, physically

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.