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

— Bruce Springsteen

The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

— Bruce Springsteen

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.

— Bruce Springsteen

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

— Bruce Springsteen

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

— Bruce Springsteen

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

— Bruce Springsteen

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.

— Bruce Springsteen

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The ambiguities, the contradictions, the complexities of your choices are always with you in your writing as they are in your life. You learn to live with them. You trust your need to have a dialogue about what you deem important.

— Bruce Springsteen

You'll walk with me out on the wire, because baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I have to know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

— Bruce Springsteen

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.

— Bruce Springsteen