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 - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.
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.
