All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.