Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

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.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.

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

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.