The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

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.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?