Bruce Springsteen

I think politics come out of psychology. ”

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on. ”

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. ”

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. ”

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 have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ”

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it. ”

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. ”

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got. ”

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. ”