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Money is a hazard.
Everybody calls me Big Man.
I have faith in the judicial system.
I was a born rock n' roll sax player.
I'm always in the market for my acting.
I look forward to working out every day.
Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.
I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.
God will give you no more than you can handle.
I never thought I'd be a, quote, 'rock & roll star.'
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
I love Asbury Park. It's like the Liverpool of America.
The Philadelphia audiences, they're like our home crowd.
I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.
All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.
I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.
It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
I visualize what I do before I do it. Visualizing makes me better.
Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.
When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.
When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.
The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.
I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.
Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.
I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.
When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.
To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.
It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.
I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.
How many ways can you cut a steak? How many ways can a chord go? I've been in this business so long, I know how to cut it.
I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.
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.
When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life again,' that's my hall of fame.
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.
Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
I've been thinking about a cookbook. I've been making notes and promising myself I'll do it some day. I have an idea for a cookbook and music together.
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.