Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

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.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."