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"When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological."
"That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime."
"Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me."
"I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old."
"A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song."
"What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer."
"I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song."
"You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it."
"I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?"
"After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself."
"I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]."
"I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling."
"The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about."
"Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind."
"I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people."
"I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as "Born To Run" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on."
"She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet."
"We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust."
"I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips."
"Out of our way mister, you best keep."