Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.