"I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on."

"I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go."

"Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from."

"With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book."

"I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail."

"People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf."

"'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit."

"Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me."