Ellis was in the middle and he was totally surrounded.

Within a second we were on the shore. We got out fast.

It was like the whole bay was boiling at this point. They were up and down and making noise. ... It was like they were signaling us.

It would have totally irritated me. We would have said we're out of the deal.

I went to the middle of nowhere, this town of 7,000 people, this totally random thing to do, but that's where I met two of the other three guys in the band. It's one of those things that tells me everything happens for a reason.

The West has to take a critical look at itself and examine the apparent double standards at work that allow it to attack Iraq for possessing weapons of mass destruction but not North Korea, whose leader shared Saddam Hussein's megalomaniacal qualities; that permit it to rail against Iran about nuclear weapons but be silent about Israel's arsenal; that allow it to only selectively demand enforcement of UN resolutions. The West has to own up to the mistakes it has made: such as with Abu Ghraib and the torture in Afghan prisons; in the errant attacks on civilians; in its disregard for the basic precept of a civilized legal system, which maintains that an accused person is innocent until proven guilty.