When I was growing up the National Rifle Association was gun safety and hunting organization. Now it's nothing more than to try to divide people.

The opportunity I had growing up in Montana isn't the opportunities for a whole lot of people.

I remember a humorous episode from Bill Clinton's presidency in which his advisers prevailed upon him, one summer before his re-election campaign, to spend his vacation in Montana and Wyoming instead of the usual Martha's Vineyard. The theory was that he'd benefit from hanging out someplace a little more down to earth.

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem in the West, where voters have always mistrusted the federal government.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Kids have a way of letting you know if they like something or not. If a child of five says she doesn't like something, it means there is a problem.

When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.