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

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" You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy. "

" I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror. "

" I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song. "

" Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you. "

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

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" Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. "

" Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will? "

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" I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford. "

" There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing. "