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.

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.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

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

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

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

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

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

No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.