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.

You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.