I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.