Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I guess my view of America is of a real bighearted country, real compassionate.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.