Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' It suggests morning; it suggests something opening up.
Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
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.
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.
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
