"This Week with George Stephanopoulos"

Yesterday, Kinky appeared on ABC News' 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos.' Each week, the show features one noteworthy person for their 'Voices' segment. Unfortunately, ABC won't grant us permission to post the segment on our site, but they did send us the following transcript:Kinky Friedman: 'I decided to run for governor because I've achieved a lot of my dreams or realized a lot of my dreams in my life: Eating monkey brains in Borena with the Peace Corp, and I've played the Grand Ole Opry. So I've done all this stuff and I want to see that other people, particularly younger Texans get to realize some of their dreams.'

'If musicians do run the state when I'm governor we won't get a lot of legislation done in the morning probably. All these politicians are owned by special interest or by political parties. I am a free bird, I am an independent, and that is just what Texas needs now.'

'When I'm governor we will bring the Ten Commandments back to school, I may have to change their name, the ten suggestions maybe, but we have to get them back in. And I would like to bring non-denominational prayer in the public schools. What's wrong with a kid believing in something? And what's wrong with independent governor that can have an issue like prayer in school that he likes, and like gay marriage that he likes? He doesn't have to tow the party line all the time. So I mean I think gays have every right to be just a miserable as the rest of us. So I support gay marriage.'

'Renewable fuel. We gotta stop the Saudis from playing the jukebox and the rest of us dancing to the tune. I mean gas is going to be costing a dollar a drop in a few years. So bio-diesel is something that my friend Willy Nelson has really been promoting and I am with Willy on this. In fact Willy will be my energy czar.'

'Well all I really offer is I know how to ride shoot straight and tell the truth. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan when he first ran for governor of California, 'the other guys got the experience, that's why I'm running.' That's exactly why I am running.'

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