Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.