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

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.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

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.