Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.