David Senra

All I could hear was what I perceived as the record's flaws.

But this is why having somebody that understands you is so important.

John tried to patiently explain to me that art often works in mysterious ways.

What makes something great may also be one of its weaknesses, just like in people.

That's excellent advice.

So I let it go.

He is on the precipice of getting every single thing that he thought he wanted.

And he's full of doubt and fear.

I needed to find out what I had.

40 years later, I did not want to be sitting in my rocking chair on a sunny afternoon with the woulda, shoulda, coulda blues.

All I could think of was my dad covered in a cloak of cigarette smoke lamenting.

I could have taken that job with the phone company, but I would have had to travel.

So instead, it was lights out.

Depression, beer, and resenting his own family for what he thought he could have accomplished.

dead meat.

I worried, but in the end, my ego, ambition, and fear of not taking my shot outweighed my insecurity.

The record goes everywhere.

They put him on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazines.

And everybody around was like, isn't this great?

This is what Springsteen said.