Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.