I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“As a child you don’t question your parents’ choices. You accept them. They” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.” — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image