The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

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.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.