[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.