#ow

If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#clean #done #had #i #janitor

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#band #bare #bones #could #couple

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#anything #ask #basically #because #down

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#dying #felt #human #human race #i

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#growing up #guitar #house #i #me

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#ball #big #fashion #fusion #happening

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#clothes #draw #how #i #models

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#enjoy #how #makes #much

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#anxiety #does #empties #empty #only