In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.