You can't start a fire without a spark

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

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