Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.