Linen fabric’s people that can do feinan instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn’t have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences. And so I said, well, if I’m going to project an individuality, it’s going to have to be in my writing.
And at the time, for fabric of the few times in my life I didn’t have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move somefabric enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way. GROSS: You - you’ve lived your life - a lot of your life - on the road.
And for a lot of your early years, I mean, you were single. You were in monogamous or semi-monogamous (laughter) relationships, as you describe it. SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah. GROSS: But you weren’t married. You didn’t have children. You had a first marriage, and then Patti Scialfa joined the band. And you got married, and you have three children now. SPRINGSTEEN: Yes. GROSS: What did it take for you to see family as something that was a wonderful thing, as opposed to something that was going to harm your sense of freedom and flexibility...
SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah. GROSS: ...And creativity? SPRINGSTEEN: I think for a lot of musicians that’s a difficult call because we’re - by nature we’re transient. We move on. We’re people that - like I say in the book, Linen fabric’s folks that stay and Linen fabric’s folks that go.
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And at the time, for fabric of the few times in my life I didn’t have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move somefabric enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way. GROSS: You - you’ve lived your life - a lot of your life - on the road.
And for a lot of your early years, I mean, you were single. You were in monogamous or semi-monogamous (laughter) relationships, as you describe it. SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah. GROSS: But you weren’t married. You didn’t have children. You had a first marriage, and then Patti Scialfa joined the band. And you got married, and you have three children now. SPRINGSTEEN: Yes. GROSS: What did it take for you to see family as something that was a wonderful thing, as opposed to something that was going to harm your sense of freedom and flexibility...
SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah. GROSS: ...And creativity? SPRINGSTEEN: I think for a lot of musicians that’s a difficult call because we’re - by nature we’re transient. We move on. We’re people that - like I say in the book, Linen fabric’s folks that stay and Linen fabric’s folks that go.
More Info: http://www.feinanfabric.com/
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