That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

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.

Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.