"I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by."

"Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult."

"At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know."

"I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something."

"I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time."

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

"I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician."

"When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do."

"God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of."

"I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up."

"You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just "a "scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real."

"My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really."

"I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety, which all would have been very familiar to my pop, you know? Except it was a part of himself he was trying to reject, so I got caught in the middle of it, I think."

"I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree."

"Talk about a dream, try to make it real"

"We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me."

"For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"

"I'm ready to grow young again"

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

"Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again"

"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."

"More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."

"You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."

"The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be..."

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

"You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people."

"Is there anybody alive out there?"

"I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."

"Cause down the shore everything's all right"

"The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence."

"Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land."

"Show a little faith, there's magic in the night."

"One day we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny"

"Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession."

"Sherrif when the man pulls that switch, Sir And snaps my poor head back, You make sure my pretty baby Is sittin' right there on my lap."

"The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe."

"Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down."

"If people are sick and hurting and lost, I guess it falls on everybody to address those problems in some fashion. Because injustice, and the price of that injustice, falls on everyone's heads."

"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."

"It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win."

"Now I work down at the carwash Where all it ever does is rain"

"The older you get, the more it means."

"Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care."

"A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living, and you put your chips where you think they might do some good."

"...The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade."

"It ain’t no secret No secret my friend You can get killed just for living In your American skin"

"First with the head, then with the heart."

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

". . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child."

"Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention."