When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.