I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours.

Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.