I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

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.

Young people are the key to this election.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

I want to see a Jew in the White house.

One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.