I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said.

You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman." ~Con

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.