"I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up."

"God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of."

"When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do."

"I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician."

"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."

"I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time."

"I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something."

"At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire album over again with studio musicians. And I said I wouldn't do it, and they basically said, 'Well hey, look, it's going to go in the trash can.' That's the record business, you know."

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

"I was an insecure young man. So my need for total dedication from the people I was working with was very great. Those things were tempered as time passed by."

"A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines."

"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."

"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."

"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."

"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."

"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."

"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."