Top 30 Scialfa Quotes
#1. Bruce Springsteen settled down. He used to run around with lots of women and now all he wants to do is hang out with Patty Scialfa and the kids.
Patty's from Jersey. You don't mess around on Jersey girls. They're too tough. I'm sorry Bubbles, but being from Pennsylvania, you're no match.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#2. With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.
Patti Scialfa
#4. When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
Patti Scialfa
#5. I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
Patti Scialfa
#6. All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
Patti Scialfa
#7. I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
Patti Scialfa
#9. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#10. Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
#12. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#13. You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
Patti Scialfa
#14. My real priorities were my family - my kids and Bruce - and my work with the E Street Band.
Patti Scialfa
#15. We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
Patti Scialfa
#16. You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.
Patti Scialfa
#17. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#18. Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be able to go to the other shore of the world.
Sarada Devi
#19. Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.
Matsuo Basho
#21. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#22. When I write songs I write for myself ... I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.
Patti Scialfa
#23. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#24. I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
Patti Scialfa
#25. 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.
Patti Scialfa
#26. I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
Patti Scialfa
#27. "That is a breathtaking display, luv. But dare not mistake my veneration for surrender."
He starts toward me, his expression fading to a scowl.
A.G. Howard
#29. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.
Yann Martel
#30. 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.
Patti Scialfa
