And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

One of the last times that we played in the area before I wrote "Allentown," I remember a guy coming up to us and saying, "You're never coming back here." I said, "Why do you say that?" He said, "Well, you're probably gonna become a big star. Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here." And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, "Well, I'm coming back, no matter what."