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

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

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.

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.

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.

Relationships are working either for our good and success, or they are harming us

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

A man who has ceased to learn ought not to wander around loose in these dangerous times

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I'm just here to spray and pray.