If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

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

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.