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.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.