We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

He was a guy you could count on. That's a pretty good trait in politics, too.

We need to take the politics out of it.

We really just wanted our songs to be anthem guitar rock with a great message. He was so awesome at capturing a moment in time and space, not concerned with making it so perfect it made it sterile.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.