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.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable.

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.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

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

When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.