You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.