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

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

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