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.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.