Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

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

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.