Bruce Springsteen

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early…

— Bruce Springsteen

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

— Bruce Springsteen

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

— Bruce Springsteen

“If people are sick and hurting and lost, I guess it falls on everybody to address those problems in some fashion. Because…

— Bruce Springsteen

There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my…

— Bruce Springsteen

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people…

— Bruce Springsteen

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to…

— Bruce Springsteen

Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough.

— Bruce Springsteen

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like…

— 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,…

— Bruce Springsteen

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over…

— Bruce Springsteen

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

— Bruce Springsteen

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply…

— Bruce Springsteen

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid…

— Bruce Springsteen

We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils…

— Bruce Springsteen

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's…

— Bruce Springsteen

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.

— Bruce Springsteen

“...The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.”

— Bruce Springsteen

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin'…

— 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,…

— Bruce Springsteen

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

— Bruce Springsteen

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

— Bruce Springsteen

“My Mind” and the country music I’d so long ignored. Hank”

— Bruce Springsteen

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

— Bruce Springsteen