"I'm just tired and bored with myself."
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"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, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also."
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"Is there anybody alive out there?"
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"The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence."
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"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. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player."
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"The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home."
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"The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know."
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"You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America."
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"I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope."
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"Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you."
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"Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils."
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"I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts."
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"Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home."
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"The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland."
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"If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver."
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"Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real."
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"I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car."
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"I want a thousand guitars . . ."
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"I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me."
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"I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds."
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