"Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget. It’s the reason families find hope when hope seems hardest to find"
“I don’t even really consider myself an activist. I feel like I’m, at best, a concerned citizen”
The event marked the opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in West Long Branch, NJ
“We can be critical of those in power… but there is no place in any way, shape, or form for political violence of any kind in our beloved United States”
It came as the band picked up an American Music Honors prize in New Jersey
The president also described the Boss as "a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon"
She played the famous intro to 'Jungleland' and sang the choir-like vocals on ‘4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)’
The showrunner talks us through his mob drama's many iconic needle-drops
“This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis, but they picked the wrong city"
"I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say and then people get to say what they want to say about it. Those are the rules of my game. That’s fine with me"