In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.