Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

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

There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have been very familiar to my pop, you know? Except it was a part of himself he was trying to reject, so I got caught in the middle of it, I think.

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.