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

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together.

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

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.