Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think hes a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.

I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end you end up polished and they end up useless.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6, 000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

That's what she said.

There is no red tapism in my state, only red carpet.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.