Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music – look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience. – Bruce Springsteen
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
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, theres innocence contained in you but theres also innocence in the process of being lost. – Bruce Springsteen
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. – Bruce Springsteen
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950