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"You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real."
"The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad."
"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive."
"In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay."
"Two hearts are better than one."
"Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose."
"Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land."
"We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves."
"You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation."
"Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me."
"You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark"
"I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable."
"The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree."
"For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere."
""Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song."
"In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away."
"With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair."
"Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there."
"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."
"Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside."