I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.