For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

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Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.