Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.