I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang.

One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

The road never ends ... only our vision does.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.