'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.