I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.

That's the government. Having been a politician and a musician, I can tell you which one is a higher calling. If musicians ran the country, it would be a much different place. We wouldn't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'd work late.

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

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.