"I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool."

"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that."

"The world's a better place since I chose music."

"The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs."

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."