When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.