Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.
How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.
It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.
The age thing is just a number.
I'm always in the market for my acting.
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.
I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.
Tell-all books are boring.
What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
Everybody calls me Big Man.
The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.
I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.
I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'
I'm a Gaga-ite.
To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.
