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.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

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

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.