All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

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.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

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

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.