I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

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.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.