Bruce Springsteen

Oh, of course. You're immediately pulled out of the inside of your head, and it immediately changes your frame of mind. I've never been on stage where I've... That's not true. I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolfe once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

There's just nothing weirder you can do. If you're up there thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there, and it's not going to happen. So trying to learn how to overcome those, which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious.

There's just nothing weirder you can do. If you're up there thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there, and it's not going to happen. So trying to learn how to overcome those, which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious.

There's just nothing weirder you can do. If you're up there thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there, and it's not going to happen. So trying to learn how to overcome those, which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious.

So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open, and you jump in and join all those people that are out there, enjoying what you're doing together.

So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open, and you jump in and join all those people that are out there, enjoying what you're doing together.

So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open, and you jump in and join all those people that are out there, enjoying what you're doing together.

Yeah, I tend to be not in my own best company. I can get a little lost if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me. But at the same time, you've got to be able to figure that out. The year and a half I was home, my son was in his last year of high school, and it was kind of my last opportunity to be here with him in the house, and I wanted to get that right.

Yeah, I tend to be not in my own best company. I can get a little lost if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me. But at the same time, you've got to be able to figure that out. The year and a half I was home, my son was in his last year of high school, and it was kind of my last opportunity to be here with him in the house, and I wanted to get that right.

Yeah, I tend to be not in my own best company. I can get a little lost if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me. But at the same time, you've got to be able to figure that out. The year and a half I was home, my son was in his last year of high school, and it was kind of my last opportunity to be here with him in the house, and I wanted to get that right.

We just had a series of concerts where the show was very interesting because we'd start out with my earliest material, and we played about... half a record off of our first record, and then half or three quarters off of the second record. So it was going back to my earliest music and re-singing my earliest songs that I wrote when I was 22. And it was funny that they just fit perfectly well.

We just had a series of concerts where the show was very interesting because we'd start out with my earliest material, and we played about... half a record off of our first record, and then half or three quarters off of the second record. So it was going back to my earliest music and re-singing my earliest songs that I wrote when I was 22. And it was funny that they just fit perfectly well.

We just had a series of concerts where the show was very interesting because we'd start out with my earliest material, and we played about... half a record off of our first record, and then half or three quarters off of the second record. So it was going back to my earliest music and re-singing my earliest songs that I wrote when I was 22. And it was funny that they just fit perfectly well.

They sort of gather the years up as time passes, and you can revisit The wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose, so it's quite a nice experience.

They sort of gather the years up as time passes, and you can revisit The wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose, so it's quite a nice experience.

They sort of gather the years up as time passes, and you can revisit The wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose, so it's quite a nice experience.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on... subtly different meanings, take on a little more meaning, I find.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on... subtly different meanings, take on a little more meaning, I find.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on... subtly different meanings, take on a little more meaning, I find.

A lot of the ones that are people's favorites, Born to Run, that expands every time we go out. It just seems to The memory of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful to see people that intensely singing your song.