I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.