Bruce Springsteen has stuck to his New Jersey roots, leaving Los Angeles and New York to live near his hometown of Freehold.
“It’s definitely not Los Angeles,” Springsteen explained. The Sunday Times In a new interview. “I feel safe here. These are my people, these are the people I wrote about. I was never a worldly youth.”
The “Born to Run” singer said he “wasn’t comfortable in Los Angeles as long as I lived there” and “wasn’t comfortable in New York either” during the ’80s and ’90s.
“I don’t think you’ll find pictures of me falling out of a nightclub in any of them. And when Patty and I had kids, we weren’t comfortable with them growing up in Los Angeles. I grew up on a block that had six houses with my relatives, so we moved back here. The kids had aunts and uncles and it was a good payoff for not being where the industry was: a normal life.
He added, “You know, it’s funny. You grew up in a place that you weren’t so sure about for many reasons. Then, whether for nostalgia’s sake or the feeling that you’re on solid ground, you find yourself returning. Now I love my hometown.”
Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, have three children, Sam, a firefighter, Evan, a music content editor, and Jessica, an Olympic silver medal-winning equestrian.
The 75-year-old said he and Patty deliberately kept their family out of the spotlight, even though the children were unaware of who their father was.
“When they were little, if they heard me on the radio they’d say, ‘Bruce Springsteen!’ It was his way of separating his father from this abstract character who also seems to be a part of his life,” he said.
The “Dancing in the Dark” singer continued, “A lot of times, we don’t expose them to it. They came to concerts a few times before going back to their rooms to play video games, and as much as they might have read, They didn’t know much about it other than that they wanted to bring their friends to the show when they grew up, but other than that, they chose their own lives, developed their own work, found their own partners and families. , all of which was a far cry from the weirdness of my job.
Springsteen told in 2017 the new York Times His children had a “healthy indifference” towards his career.
“We had children late, I was 40 when our first son was born, and he showed a healthy indifference towards our work all these years. They had their own musical heroes, they had their own music that they were interested in. If anyone mentioned the title of my song they would get very upset, and I always looked at it as we did a good job,” Springsteen said.
