You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

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

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

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.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.