Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.

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

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.