Bruce Springsteen

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.