Energy issues are important to people, and we're are struggling with how to deal with that publicly.

I've definitely been asked about some of the characters. These characters are composites. In general, people want fiction to be really simple, like, 'This is his life.' And it's just not true.

These people come from other places, and they want to make all these changes, they can't comprehend why we do this. My grandfather, my father and my uncles -- they all taught me to shoot fish. It's our history.

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to renewable energy, is I'm pretty sure I'm the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

We never matched their intensity level. We weren't able to come out of our timeouts and raise our energy level. We just never responded.