Quotes By Bruce Springsteen

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

I think politics come out of psychology.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.