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.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

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.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

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.

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.

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.

The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

I grew up with a very religious background.

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

Rock-and-roll, to me, is very serious because we deal with the young people. We deal with people who need something, and that's the same thing that a preacher does. He feeds you something that you need spiritually in your soul and in your makeup.

As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I'll be out there doing it. I'm going to keep going 'til I'm not there anymore. This is what's keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.

More than 50 percent of kids who play an instrument go on to college, yet music education programs at the inner city public schools who need them most continue to be hit hard with budget cuts.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

I'm a mellow fellow. Nothing much bothers me.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

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.

I have faith in the judicial system.

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.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

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.

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.

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.

When I go out before a crowd, I ask God to give me inspiration to be the light.

Money is a hazard.

I'd rather somebody punch me in the face than drop my sax.

Working out has always been a way of life for me.

It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.

I'm like the Bionic Man.

I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

I didn't think I'd ever be a Michael Jackson fan. But... watching him move, watching him dance, is so encouraging for me. Because, in my mind, I can do all that stuff.

I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.

I always had this vision of what I wanted to do in life.

Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

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've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

The age thing is just a number.

I'm always in the market for my acting.