Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

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

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.