Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

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.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.