No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. T… - Bruce Springsteen

I think what's happening now is people want to forget. There was Vietnam, there was Watergate, there was Iran – we were beaten, we were hustled, and then we were humiliated. And I think people got a need to feel good about the country they live in. But what's happening, I think, is that that need – which is a good thing – is gettin' manipulated and exploited. And you see the Reagan reelection ads on TV – you know: "It's morning in America." And you say, well, it's not morning in Pittsburgh. It's not morning above 125th Street in New York. It's midnight, and, like, there's a bad moon risin'. And that's why when Reagan mentioned my name in New Jersey, I felt it was another manipulation, and I had to disassociate myself from the president's kind words.

And your strength is devastating in the face of all these odds. Remember how I kept you waiting when it was my turn to be the god.

You manage it (mental health), you learn and evolve, but another recognition you gotta have is that these are the cards you were dealt...These things are never going to be out of your life. You gotta be constantly vigilant and realistic about these things.