Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours.