So many of your songs, particularly the early ones, are about searching for a dream and wanting to bust out of the confines of your life. And I felt that it was connected to some of the music I had written, and so that was just an important thing to write about. You know, there's a lot of it that's pretty personal. And Patti was very gracious in the - to the extent that she allowed me to write the book. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree. Writing about the depression - I just felt, you know, when you write a book like this you have to open up your life. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff."īooks 'Born To Run' Is A 500-Page Springsteen Show
And I had two or three weeks and I said, "Wow, that essay was pretty good. The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. No, it really didn't have anything to do with the book at all. So, we'll talk about this a little later if it's OK with you, but in the book, you write about how in your 60s, you've experienced periods of profound depression.Īnd I'm wondering if that affected either the motivation for writing the book, your approach to writing the book, what you wanted to write about in the book? It feels like me." But then once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find the rhythm of your prose, and it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.īut that's one of the things I love about the book, is that there is rhythm and music in it, even though it's not a song. I wrote a little essay, and I felt, "Yeah, this has a good voice. But you still had to find the music inside your language, you know? That's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I mean, you get feedback from the press and fans are just starting to get a chance to read it, so I'm looking forward to that. But the book has been a little bit different, you know?
But it's a little different, you know? I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out, then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience, so that's been the pattern of my life. Not having to perform it onstage is a good one.
So, what's it like for you to write something that doesn't have to rhyme, and that you don't have to perform onstage?
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