I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.