Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

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.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.