Bruce Springsteen

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in. ”

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me. ”

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless. ”

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home. ”

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful. ”

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. ”

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it. ”

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written. ”

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. ”

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. ”