21 Quotes by Patti Scialfa

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

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.

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 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.

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.

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

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

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