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"The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need."
"Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn."
"The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense."
"I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio."
"I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter."
"When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness."
"I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room."
"Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets."
"You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right."
"You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender."
"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
"When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security.""
"To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts."
"From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path."
"Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?"
"I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over."
"I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band."
"now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man"
"To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along."