You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

[It was a show that could have the audience singing along to a joyful] Blinded by the Light ... The Promised Land.

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.