"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
Bruce Springsteen"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 will get you really bad."
Bruce Springsteen"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
Bruce Springsteen"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination."
Bruce Springsteen"For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere."
Bruce Springsteen"The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
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 anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."
Bruce Springsteen"There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
Bruce Springsteen"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
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