I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

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

True love usually results in a hostage situation.

I want to see a Jew in the White house.

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.

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.

Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.