I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.

If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.

I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.

I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.