The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

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.

There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.