I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever si….

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in ….

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to ….

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, ….

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter..

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye..

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their ….

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 Jo….

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the….

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy..

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts..

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying..

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I t….

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air..

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart..

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away..

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, a….

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!.

I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to m….

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.