I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Everybody's got a hungry heart.