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.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.