There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
We are here to make another world.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.