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"I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young."
"From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life."
"Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography."
"I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street."
"T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy."
"I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist."
"You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me."
"I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell."
"I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
"I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell."
"I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I."
"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."
"I was real good at music and real bad at everything else."
"On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience."
"An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next."
"I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles."
"For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life."
"I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day."
"I don't know many artists who are not crazy."
"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."