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

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

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.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

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.