I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

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.

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.