Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in Northern Sudan. I would like to get to Zimbabwe. I would like to go back to North Korea, if I could. I would like to go to Yemen. I would like to get to Kashmir. Most of those destinations I will get to.

Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.