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" When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go round the world with my rock band, and you can bring harmony. "

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" I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. "

" I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle. "

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" When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free. "

" There's no glamour in stupid mistakes. "

" The wild thing is that when I'm in the band, I can control my destiny with four other guys. As a composer sitting in the audience, you can throw good vibes at everybody, but you can't control anybody's destiny, so it's really unsettling. "

" We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going. "

" It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft. "

" One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.' "

" It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that. "

" I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it. "

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" My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano. "

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" I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands. "

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Rock

" I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one night, I'd want a hit. I want to hear the songs that brought them to that pinnacle of success. "

" I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America. "

" I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion. "

" Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters. "

" A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me away from dinner. 'I need the chords for that song right now!' No, it can wait. "

" I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience. "

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" I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live. "

" We've always been a band of the people, and we will always remain a band of the people. "

" Glass and wearable technology is an example of another step in consumer-facing innovation that will change how we share the music experience with our fans in the future. "

" I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like 'Hold On! I'm Comin'' and 'Knock on Wood' and 'Midnight Hour.' "

" Before 'Memphis,' I had never considered working on a musical. But when Joe DiPietro sent me the script, I heard the entire score in my head. "

" It's so much fun to be on stage and play. It really is. "

" I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true. "

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" I think growing up in the shadow of New York shaped me for life. Hey, you come from Jersey, you get used to being dumped on by the big city. "

" I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world. "

" I'm going to stop when I'm 100. I put a limit on myself. "

" Most theatre people and composers are like research hounds. "