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Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.
Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'
Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.
It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.
Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?
The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.
Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.
You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.
In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away.
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.
You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.
You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.
It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear
More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.
You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.
Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?
I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band.
I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.
I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.
If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.
A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.
Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.
Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.
Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.