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"A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking."
"Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did."
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"Everybody's got a hungry heart."
"Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away."
"The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band."
"The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul."
"I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing."
"The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence."
"We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet."
"But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got."
"The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world."
"Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
"A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out."
"A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line."
"And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent."
"You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."
"It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear"
"You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past."
"In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream."