Clarence Clemons

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

I'll never be rude to another news person. It's a tough job, a thankless job. You really have to get out there and grovel to get your story.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.

Small clubs aren't as lucrative, but spiritually, they're my favorite places to play. It's a homey kind of thing. I refer to it as the Church of What's Happening Now.

You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.

When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'

Money is a hazard.