Author: Bruce Springsteen

At this point, I’m in the middle of a very long conversation with my audience.

It’s an ongoing dialogue about what living means. You create a space together. You are involved in an act of the imagination together, imagining the life you want to live, the kind of country you want to live in, the kind of place you want to leave to your children. What are the things that bring you ecstasy and bliss, what are the things that bring on the darkness, and what can we do together to combat those things? That’s the dialogue I have in my imagination when I’m writing. I have it in front of me when I’m performing.

From the unknown Rolling Stone 2007

The trick in keeping bands together is always the same: ‘Hey, asshole, the guy standing next to you is more important than you think he is.’

From the unknown Rolling Stone 2009-Jan-05