Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

I don't feel bad about losing.

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street