The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

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

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.