At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.

cause down the shore everything's all right

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.