Just walkin', hiking the streets of the sky.

Baby this town rips the bones from your back / It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap

Somewhere up the stairs, / Into the fire / May your strength give us strength / May your faith give us faith

Most of these most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence

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.

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.

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.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.