You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something. Bruce Springsteen More Quotes by Bruce Springsteen More Quotes From Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. Bruce Springsteen self mother father To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts. Bruce Springsteen wall blue way I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. Bruce Springsteen band done stories An unfulfilled life makes a hard man. Bruce Springsteen adages hard men An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for. Bruce Springsteen audience given fighting When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological. Bruce Springsteen punishment brother stuff It's hard to be a saint in the city. Bruce Springsteen hard saint cities The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Bruce Springsteen lasts broken hero Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again. Bruce Springsteen sunshine sadness rain The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. Bruce Springsteen time-passes different song I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin. Bruce Springsteen miles sadness skins You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark Bruce Springsteen gun dark fall If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics. Bruce Springsteen characteristics growing-up guy Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell Bruce Springsteen tonight home heaven 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 smart guy school T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy. Bruce Springsteen bones daddy rocks I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed. Bruce Springsteen car feet brain Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography. Bruce Springsteen flotsam geography people Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers. Bruce Springsteen catholic church school The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit. Bruce Springsteen differences dark latin
