"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."

“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.”

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

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

“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.”