Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

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

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

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

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.