At night, he hears "Born Free" playing through his dreams as he gambols on the savannas of some imagined paradise.
I was in the Ford Falcon when I first heard Born to Be Wild on the radio.
Dion has heard Born to Be With You called great, but he's still not convinced it's any good.
I first heard "Born to Run" on a cassette that my buddy Noel made me in the summer of 1984, nearly a decade after the album came out.
He said he looks into the audience, because they don't get to hear Born to Run 200 nights a year, every year.
You hear 'Born to Run' a million times, and you grow up with 'Born in the USA', but it wasn't until I was 24 that I actually realised how great he was.
But either he hasn't read the Sermon on the Mount, or he's guilty of the most quarterwitted political misapprehension since Ronald Reagan heard Born in the USA and fancied it an uplifting hymn to the American Dream.
With the American-flag backdrop on the album cover and the fist-pumping energy Springsteen and the E Street Band brought to the song on their subsequent stadium tour of the world, a lot of fans heard Born in the USA as a feel-good, patriotic anthem.
It sure would be great to hear "Born to Be Wild". There are plenty of things you have never tried.
She also came to report to The Newsweek Daily Beast Company what she had in mind when she heard "Born This Way": "I thought, 'What a wonderful way to redo my song'.
