The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

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.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.