Bruce springsteen

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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 had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And...

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

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work......

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.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during...

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.

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.