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

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

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.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

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.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.