What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Some music really does suck!

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I'm very boring.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.