I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.