I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

Andrew Creighton, who ran Europe for us and who now runs the company day-to-day, would always go to the people he would hire and say, "Look, I don't know what it is, but whatever this guy says comes true because he's got some sort of weird self-fulfilling-prophecy thing." And that's exactly right. The reason I was so bombastic or whatever was because you have to believe it.

If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

I'm sure everybody looked at me cockeyed. But if you don't believe it, then it's not going to happen. If you don't believe it, no one else is going to believe it. But if you believe it and keep saying it, then slowly one person will believe you, then two, then three, then four . . .

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.