When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

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.