Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking ….

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live..

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't,….

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my f….

I want a thousand guitars . . ..

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be..

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac..

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession..

Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul..

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that..

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle….

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences..

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience..

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins..

In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away..

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Ba….

You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right..

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe..

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done..

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid yo….