I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
My first instrument was a little blue ukele.
Get out of my dreams, get into my car.
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
Success can create more madness than happiness.
And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.
New York is a nice place. " "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.
If I have an iPod, I'm good.
If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.