We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

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.

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

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.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.