I beg young people to travel.

I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.