George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

The world's a better place since I chose music.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

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

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension