There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

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.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.