For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

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.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?