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

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

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.

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

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

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.