The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

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.

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.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.