David Senra

And Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Iovine are very close friends.

They work together.

And in that documentary, I heard Bruce Springsteen say this.

He said, I didn't want to be rich.

I didn't want to be famous.

I didn't even want to be happy.

I wanted to be great.

And so I want to read a few quotes from Bruce Springsteen that's in the documentary that made me pick up his autobiography.

And so he says, if you want to accomplish what hasn't been accomplished before, you have to be relentlessly and unapologetically determined.

When you're trying to push the boundaries on things and when you're moving into different types of frontiers, you need to be surrounded by people who really believe in what you're doing.

And he's describing working on the album that changes his life.

It is his third album.

It's called Born to Run, which is also the name of his autobiography in the book I'm going to talk to you about today.

Now, this work ethic never left him.

So even though he wrote this autobiography by hand, this book is almost 600 pages long.

It's huge.

He hand wrote the entire manuscript in his notebook, and then he rewrote it again and again in longhand.

He was editing not just for accuracy, but for tone.

He wrote it like he was composing a record.

And you feel it when you read the book.