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

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.

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