Old habits die hard, and for The Boss, touring is one habit that won't die until ... well, he does.
“You’ve never seen a hearse with luggage on top, so that will be it for me," Springsteen said during the Oct. 18 episode of The Graham Norton Show. "I am going to keep going until it’s over.”
Springsteen, who was on the show promoting his new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, has sold millions of albums, racked up an impressive string of hit singles, won 20 Grammys and one Oscar — and he's spent half a century thrilling legions of adoring fans in concert.
It’s something fans may see explored in the upcoming Bruce biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere” in which Jeremy Allen White is set to play the rocker.
The film will follow Springsteen after the release of the 1980 album “The River” as he works on his stripped-down 1982 follow-up, “Nebraska.”
“I get anticipatory anxiety," Springsteen said. "It’s not quite the same thing as nervousness. It’s a natural feeling to have before you go out to challenge yourself. If it wasn’t there, I think there would be something wrong with you, and you couldn’t do the job.”
“We’ve been around for 50 f**king years and we ain’t quitting,” Springsteen told the audience, according to footage from the concert posted to social media. “We ain’t doing no farewell tour bullsh*t. No farewell tour for the E Street Band.”
