New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes