If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

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.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.