I’m not really a big Springsteen guy. I’ll listen to the music, but … I didn’t really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That’s really who I listen to.
When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don’t see a circus.
I’m certainly no Bruce Springsteen in terms of being a storyteller, but I’m trying to get a better handle on it and not always go after it from an autobiographical standpoint.
I’m an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
‘The Rising’ isn’t Springsteen’s masterpiece.
Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He’s a role model – because he’s a local guy who got out.
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tracks played in a warm Marie Curie hospice, surrounded by doting nurses and his family.
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn’t dominate the charts.
I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it.
I’m a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn’t beat around the bush, and he doesn’t overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman’s terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.
As a songwriter, I listen to everything to be inspired… from Rihanna to Bruno Mars to Springsteen to Johnny Cash.
My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar – he’s a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My mom does musical theater, too. All of those influences were around.
I’ve had a nice career. I’m no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I’m not an icon. I’m just a working artist.
What’s on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.
I want to get to the point where one day I don’t have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.
Bruce Springsteen’s world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
I like movies and radios and Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey. That’s what I like, and if people don’t like that, well, literally you can go on iTunes, and there’s hundreds of other bands you can listen to.
The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.
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