I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children. – Bruce Springsteen
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. – Bruce Springsteen
But then I go through long periods where I dont listen to things, usually when Im working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. – Bruce Springsteen
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didnt do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didnt fit in my intelligence was elsewhere. – Bruce Springsteen