I still have the same beliefs as when I was in the monastery.

I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.

I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

People are lost. Their feelings are based around material things, and because that doesn't make them happy, they look for something else: bullfighting or soccer, or they go travelling, off to India - and that's not right. You can't just decide, 'I'm going on holiday to India.' Only when God allows you to. You have to ask His permission to go there.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we're all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.