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

When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.

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

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

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

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.