My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.