I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

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

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

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.