Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.