Quotes from Bruce Springsteen

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

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.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

We made a promise we swore we'd always rememberNo retreat, baby, no surrender.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

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

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

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

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

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.

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

We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.

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

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

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

Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.