I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.