Singer

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

I like progress but I hate change.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

I'm not a big disco guy.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.