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.

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

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

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.

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.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.