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"Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience."
"The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually."
"I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me."
"Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is."
"I guess there's just a meanness in this world"
"[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since."
"[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents."
"Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again"
"I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint."
"It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together."
"Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous."
"They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!"
"I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me."
"At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head."
"The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown."
"I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is."
"Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down."
"When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways."
"I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing."
"I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for."