Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.

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

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.