Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
Bruce Springsteen
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.
And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
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.
All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid... →
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... →
I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school.... →
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy... →