Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can’t quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. – Bruce Springsteen
I’m a synthesist. I’m always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn’t. – Bruce Springsteen
You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. – Bruce Springsteen
The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home. – Bruce Springsteen
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs. – Bruce Springsteen
I’m not in any rush. I’m not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That’s not something I’ve ever really quite done. – Bruce Springsteen
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid ’80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work. – Bruce Springsteen
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin’ all the time, always playin’ the clown. – Bruce Springsteen
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. – Bruce Springsteen
I don’t like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don’t believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in. – Bruce Springsteen
You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records. – Bruce Springsteen
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy’s audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid ’80s. – Bruce Springsteen
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that’s where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass. – Bruce Springsteen
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. – Bruce Springsteen
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day. – Bruce Springsteen
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. – Bruce Springsteen
This music is forever for me. It’s the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that’s what you live for. – Bruce Springsteen
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that’s a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly. – Bruce Springsteen
An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next. – Bruce Springsteen
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can’t live without. And that’s how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention. – Bruce Springsteen
The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually. – Bruce Springsteen
I’m interested in what it means to be an American. I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is. – Bruce Springsteen