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"The really important reading that I did began in my late twenties, with authors like Flannery O'Connor. There was something in those stories of hers that I felt captured a certain part of the American character that I was interested in writing about. They were a big, big revelation. She got to the heart of some part of meanness that she never spelled out, because if she spelled it out you wouldn't be getting it. It was always at the core of every one of her stories—the way that she'd left the hole there, that hole that's inside of everybody. There was some dark thing—a component of spirituality—that I sensed in her stories, and that set me off exploring characters of my own. She knew original sin—knew how to give it the pesh (sic) of a story. She had talent and she had ideas, and the one served the other."
Bruce Springsteen in conversation with Will Percy, for
DoubleTake Magazine (Spring 1998)
(Do you remember
DoubleTake? How I loved that magazine. The photograph above is of Asbury Park, taken in winter, a few years back.)
Its funny what pieces of writing and music influence us or speak to us, and sometimes they are very different