I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.