You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

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

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.