In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.