Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.