Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

He is an idiot, " I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power, " he said.

Only in thoughtful dialogue with what it says can this fragment of thinking be translated. However, thinking is poetizing, and indeed more than one kind of poetizing, more than poetry and song.

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb