I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

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.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.