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" You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are. "

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" I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way. "

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" I don't really sell many records. "

" I've been writing and making my own music for a long time. "

" I like having the space of my own project. "

" You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you? "

" When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely. "

" I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me. "

" There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music. "

" When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you. "

" For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest. "

" Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact. "

" I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that. "

" You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that. "

" People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project. "

" I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters. "

" All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing. "

" My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band. "