Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

But 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.