I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.