My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

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

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.