Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

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

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.