Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.

There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

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

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.