Your spoken voice is a part of it – not a big part of it, but it’s something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what’s otherwise difficult music.
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you’re 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life – certainly by the time you’re 18.
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night’s busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
After ‘Born to Run,’ I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who’d come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
It’s a sad man my friend who’s livin’ in his own skin and can’t stand the company.
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
But 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.
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that’s a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I’d make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
Sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you’ve got to pay.
An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.
Settle back is to settle without knowing.
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.
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.