Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.

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.