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

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit.