Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

Talking about music is like talking about sex. Can you describe it? Are you supposed to?

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.

We gotta get out while we're young'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

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.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

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

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.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary,Out by the gas fires of the refinery;I'm ten years burning down the road,Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go.

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