“It started when I was a young kid,” he said. “More than being rich or more than being good looking, I wanted to make great music. I wanted to inspire people the way I felt inspired. And that’s my life’s work. I want to inspire you with my music the way people touched my heart and soul with their music.” (UCR)
He added: “On the last tour we played 200 different songs. Once the tour gets rolling the show is regularly different on a night-to-night basis. We don’t just play three-and-a-half hours a night – we’re there in the afternoon. I’ve done two-hour soundchecks just to learn something new. It’s just because it’s fun, and it remains an honor to play for our audience. And that’s what I insist on the band on a nightly basis.”
Asserting his reputation was “one the line” at every performance, he continued: “I don’t care how long you’ve been doing it – you have the opportunity to impact somebody’s life tonight. It’s somebody’s first time every night and I want to play like it’s my first night.”
Bruce Springsteen sets ‘Tonight Show’ residency ahead of new album
The Boss is promoting his new album, Only the Strong Survive. And among the promotion, he went also to BBC's The Graham Norton Show.
Together on Graham’s sofa last night: rock legend Bruce Springsteen, promoting his new album Only the Strong Survive; Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy, in the horror-comedy The Menu; Motherland and Line of Duty star Anna Maxwell Martin, in ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends; and comedian and chat show host Mo Gilligan. With music from Florence and the Machine, who perform their single Dream Girl Evil, and more audience stories from the world-famous Big Red Chair. (The full episode is on BBC One
Springsteen’s four-night stand on Jimmy Fallon's “The Tonight Show” starts Monday and then returns for the show’s Nov. 15, Nov. 16 and Nov. 24 episodes.
As Springsteen recalled in his autobiography: “Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing It All Back Home were not only great records, but they were the first time I can remember being exposed to a truthful vision of the place I lived.”
As he continues to poetically dissect Dylan’s work, he adds: “The darkness and light were all there, the veil of illusion and deception ripped aside. He put his boot on the stultifying politeness and daily routine that covered corruption and decay.” (faroutmagazine)
As it happens, in 1982, Sean Penn was dating ‘The Boss’’ sister, the photographer Pamela Springsteen. Obsessed with the song, Penn told the ‘Born to Run’ singer, “I’m going to make a movie out of ‘Highway Patrolmen’.” The ever-watchful Springsteen then apparently laughed it off with condescension and told that cocky star, “Ok, Sean.” Seeing as though this exchange itself seemed like something from the movie, its fate was almost sealed then and there to be made.