I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
Bruce SpringsteenI don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
Bruce SpringsteenThey put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.
Bruce SpringsteenYou've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.
Bruce SpringsteenAnd at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way.
Bruce Springsteen