"In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged."

“The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.”

“Photo archive of Bruce Springsteen by Rock Photographer Chris Walter.”

“Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!”

“Cose romantiche a buon mercato”

“I think what's happening now is people want to forget. There was Vietnam, there was Watergate, there was Iran – we were beaten, we were hustled, and then we were humiliated. And I think people got a need to feel good about the country they live in. But what's happening, I think, is that that need – which is a good thing – is gettin' manipulated and exploited. And you see the Reagan reelection ads on TV – you know: "It's morning in America." And you say, well, it's not morning in Pittsburgh. It's not morning above 125th Street in New York. It's midnight, and, like, there's a bad moon risin'. And that's why when Reagan mentioned my name in New Jersey, I felt it was another manipulation, and I had to disassociate myself from the president's kind words.”