When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

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.

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

I think politics come out of psychology.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.