I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
Bruce Springsteen
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny... →
But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It... →
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.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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... →
From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.
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... →
I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social... →