Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

The idea of windmills conjures up pleasant images - of Holland and tulips, of rural America with windmill blades slowly turning, pumping water at the farm well ... But the windmills we are talking about today are not your grandmother's windmills. Each one is typically 100 yards tall, two stories taller than the Stature of Liberty, taller than a football field is long.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.