It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.