Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.