My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.