The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.
Bruce SpringsteenThe Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
Bruce SpringsteenBut I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
Bruce SpringsteenJust sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
Bruce SpringsteenIf 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.
Bruce Springsteen