I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the necessity of pursuing one's passion regardless of circumstances.
Bruce Springsteen's quote highlights the idea that true artists cannot separate their identity from their art. Even if he were to take on a completely different profession, the passion and need to create music would remain, demonstrating that artistic expression is an integral part of who he is.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart _x000D_ _x000D_ Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell_x000D_ And I feel like I'm comin' home.
The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
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