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I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.
Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.
I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.
They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!
Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.
All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.
Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.
I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.
I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.
Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.
Your legs were heaven, your breasts were the alter, your body was the holy land.
I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.
So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.
Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.
We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.
When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.
I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.
The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.
Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?
I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.
I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.
I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.
I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.