After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

He smelled of forest and primal desire that saturated Taryn's senses and made her imagine what it felt like to be caught and conquered.

... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.