I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

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