Bruce Springsteen

The lines can be so top-heavy, which is how I wrote at the time.

I wrote very flamboyantly.

And that was after leaning it all down.

That was after really cutting it down to its toughest little construction for me.

The stuff previous to that, if you go back into my notebooks, some of it is so floridly, so far out that it's all embarrassing.

So a line like that was just the longing and the intensity and the desire for a certain sort of a kind of living that...

Art tends to, or music or films or whatever, sometimes tends to heighten and throw back on you as a way of sending you out to search for a certain kind of intensity in your own life, you know.

Hey Eddie, can you lend me a few bucks?

Tonight, can you get us a ride?

Gotta make it through the tunnel Got a meeting with a man on the other side And Eddie the Sky, he's the real thing So if you wanna come along You gotta promise you won't say anything

Cause this guy don't dance And the word's been passed, this is our last chance

The ranger's at a homecoming

In Harlem late last night And a magic rat drove his sleek machine Over a Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The rat pulls and the town rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance And disappear down from England lane

Will a maximum law man run down from Engle chasing her head in a barefoot girl?

Will the kids around here look just like shadows, always quiet, holding hands?

From the churches to the jails, tonight all is silent in the world.

Jungle Land

Immediately after Born to Run, I felt I had sort of, okay, that was the song of my youth.

These three records, they were the...

but maybe particularly Born to Run.