What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on
To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.
Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.
A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.
I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
It is those same so-called experts who said we had no chance of winning the primary. It will be hard work, but we can win. And if those same people who fought against me work just as hard for me, we will win.