Bruce Springsteen

Bruce: I'm an alienated person by nature, always have been, still am to this day. It continues to be an issue in my life, in that I'm always coming from the outside, I'm always operating in distance, and I'm always trying to overcome my own internal reticence and alienation - which is funny, because I throw myself the opposite way onstage. But the reason I do that is because while the stage and all those people are out there, the abyss is under my heels, and I always feel it back there.

Bruce: (about live performances) I'm not trying to recreate what the song was like on the record. I can do that, but there's no purpose. I'm searching for the song to be alive now.

Bruce (about the 2008 death of E Street Band member Danny Federici): Danny and I worked together for 40 years -- he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much ... we grew up together.