I talked to one man whose 18-year-old son was killed 12 days before he was scheduled to come home. There were many people there sharing their stories of their relatives in Iraq.

We left early Thursday morning and arrived late afternoon in Crawford. We went straight to Camp Casey and arrived as Cindy Sheehan was leaving.

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

If I had been a man in a suit and tie, he would have never given me that clipboard and told me to write that order, ... I threw the clipboard back at him and I said, 'No, you can write the order for me.'

I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.