I’m not sure how they connect or even if they do connect. I’m a little hesitant to make that immediate connection. WZ: To make it causal? Springsteen: I’m just not sure that that’s the way creativity works and functions. [Pauses.] But you did have to put yourself in that isolated place to make that record. My hometown is ten minutes to the west. I did and still do a lot of living there. I go back and plumb those mysteries to this day.
The broken fingernails of dirty hands.
My humble people who expect
Nothing.
