Bruce Springsteen

"All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

"For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere."

"I think politics come out of psychology."

"I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless."

"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."

"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad."

"There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up."

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."

"You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it."