"Open your ears, open your hearts. Don't take yourselves too seriously and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don't worry. Worry your ass off. Have iron clad confidence. But doubt! It keeps you awake and alert. Believe you are the baddest ass in town and you suck. It keeps you honest. Be able to keep two completely contradictory ideas alive and well in your heart and head at all times. If it does not drive you crazy it will make you strong. Stay hard, stay hungry and stay alive. (...) We live in a post-authentic world. Today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you are bringing when the lights go down, its your teachers, your influences, your personal history. At the end of the day it's the power and the purpose of your music that still matters". ('Listen up, youngsters': Springsteen offers life advice in SXSW keynote)

(2012)