Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

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.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

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

I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.