We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac.

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

The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.