Bruce Springsteen

“I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.”

“I think politics come out of psychology.”

“There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”

“I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.”

“Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.”

“I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.”

“When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.”

“I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense...”

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

“I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.”

“Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”

“'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.”

“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.”