I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.