I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

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.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.