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.

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

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.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.