Videos by American Songwriter
In penning his autobiography, Bruce Springsteen took the same approach he uses when writing songs.
“You write down your first thoughts which is a blueprint, and see if you have something that can be worked on,” Springsteen says in a new video interview, which you can watch below.
The book, titled Born To Run, comes out September 27 and is being published by Simon & Schuster.
The Boss says he worked on the book off and on over the course of seven years. “Mainly I was just trying to write as well as I could,” he said.
“The hardest part is … writing about the present, [because] it’s all people you’re living with in your life today,” he added. “That was the most challenging part. Writing about stuff in the past you felt you had a lot of freedom there.”
Springsteen is releasing a companion album to the book called Chapter and Verse, which will include five unreleased tracks.
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation
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