I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

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

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.

The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.