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.

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

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.

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

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.

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.