“Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is wit...” — Bruce Springsteen Quote

“Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.”

“I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.”

“While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.”

“When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.”

“Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.”

“I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'”

“Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.”

“We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she's more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.”

“I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.”

“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.”

“A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.”

“If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.”