The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

You know hearts these days are cheap.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I think politics come out of psychology.