Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.