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.

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.

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.

From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

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