I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.