We should have scored on it, to tell you the truth. When it came down to it at the end, we just didn't get in there. … It's been a tough season, and we've been in that situation before. We could've finished, but we didn't.

For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake City ... he was a good friend of mine ... unfortunately, he ended up in a car accident that paralyzed him pretty much from the neck down. He also needed a liver transplant. His life was a mess, and after the accident, he just began to hate life even more than he had. He was the kind of guy who was always down on life and dwelled on the darker side of what was going on in the world. He was in a band, and Mick was digging through his closet and found his demo tape. We put it on and it brought back all these memories. This guy wrote about taking his own life, which a lot of people sing about. Usually they don't go through with the act. He did, three years ago. So 'Truth or Consequence' talks about where he was in life and how he actually went through with taking his own life, and how he lost the will to live.

I felt real good. In the second half, I really started feeling like myself again. I had a lot of confidence. I can say I was 100 percent, to tell you the truth.

We just didn't finish this year. That's been our main problem the whole year. It came down to it again, and we didn't finish again.

There was no Democratic leader telling the American people the truth about how the war in Iraq is absorbing so many resources it's making our country more vulnerable and less secure.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian