Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
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 your children.
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's bas...
Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty...
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafé factory at the town’s eastern edge. I don’t like coffee but I like that...
There’s a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and get lost in a sea of blue. A Jersey-accented voice says, It’s about time, kid, and Frank Sinatra rattles the ice in his glass of Jack Daniel’s. Looking...
The primary math of the real world is one and one equals two. The layman (as, often, do I) swings that every day. He goes to the job, does his work, pays his bills and comes home. One plus one equals...
When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electric introduction: She was Italian, funny, a beatific tomboy, with just the hint of a lazy eye, and wor...