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.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

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

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.