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 rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18. Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll. Bruce Springsteen rock-and-roll rocks passion You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean. Bruce Springsteen clothes wish goodbye Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye. Bruce Springsteen girl eye trying Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, "Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown. Bruce Springsteen night boys son Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust? Bruce Springsteen dust moon baby 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 context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in. Bruce Springsteen writing believe people I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. Bruce Springsteen woody musical firsts I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day. Bruce Springsteen murphy records labels I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. Bruce Springsteen stores records attention We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. Bruce Springsteen stories The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law. Bruce Springsteen issues rights law We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust. Bruce Springsteen wind-blowing home dirty The criminal ineptitude makes you furious. Bruce Springsteen furious ineptitude criminals I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done. Bruce Springsteen done writing song I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I. Bruce Springsteen girl relationship two I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly. Bruce Springsteen band silly ideas I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I. Bruce Springsteen boardwalks fraud towns 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 enjoy the attention. Bruce Springsteen ego stars attention The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out. Bruce Springsteen daughter jobs war I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't. Bruce Springsteen finished different kind
