I was one of the few American scholars who knew anything about the group. So they asked if I could investigate them to prove they had nothing to do with the attack.

I've come to believe that coercion in matters of religion are self-defeating. If you leave people alone, the great majority will find their way to the center of one of the 15 or 16 great religious traditions.

It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.

You break down every job that normally one person can do. We had one guy do nothing but put slips on boxes.

For so long, we were, like, where are the American players? That question was asked many times,

They asked if we knew anybody who had a nipple ring. I said that my brother did. I got his ID out of his clothes he had packed, waiting to go to work in Louisiana.