Bruce Springsteen Quotes

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.

I would probably confess that I was the greatest disappointment of my mother's life, but my father only admired his son's moxie, drive, hustle, and wherewithal to pursue his dreams no matter how I achieve them.

My father didn't believe in my music. I don't blame him.

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I didn't have the best relationship with my dad. I was bullied in school, picked on. I remember the first time of just trying to connect with girls. It was just rejection after rejection. So I always felt ugly.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.

When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'

When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.

I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

My brother, he just thought I was crazy.