We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

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.

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.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

The heart of another is a dark forest.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

Timing is everything with relationships.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.