Bruce Springsteen stays true to his New Jersey roots, eschewing Los Angeles and New York to stay close to his hometown of Freehold.
“It’s definitely not Los Angeles,” Springsteen told the Sunday Times in a new interview. “I feel safe here. This is where my people are, where the people I talked about are. I’ve never been a worldly young man.”
The “Born to Run” singer said he was “not comfortable in Los Angeles when I lived there” in the ’80s and ’90s and that he “wasn’t “not comfortable in New York” either.
Bruce Springsteen has said he prefers living in New Jersey and has never been “comfortable” in Los Angeles or New York. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
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“I don’t think you can find pictures of me falling out of a nightclub in either one. And when Patti and I had kids, we weren’t comfortable about them growing up in Los Angeles. I grew up in a neighborhood that had six of them.
“I feel safe here. This is where my people are, where the people I talked about are. I’ve never been a worldly young man.”
He added: “You know, it’s funny. You grow up in a place that you weren’t so sure about for various reasons. Then, whether it’s nostalgia or a sense of being on solid ground, you you find yourself coming back. 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 medalist in equestrian riding.
Sam Springsteen, Evan Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen attend the 72nd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 10, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic)
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The 75-year-old said he and Patti deliberately kept their family out of the spotlight, even though the children were aware of who their father was.
“When they were little, if they heard me on the radio, they would say, ‘Bruce Springsteen!’ It was their way of separating their father from this abstract character who also seemed to be part of their lives,” he said.
The “Dancing in the Dark” singer continued, “A lot of times we just didn’t expose them to it. They came to shows multiple times before going back to their room to play video games, and didn’t know not much about it beyond what they may have read. When they were older, they wanted to bring their friends to the show, but other than that they chose their own lives, developed their own work. , found their own partners and families, all in a good mood far from the strangeness of my job.”
Springsteen said he keeps his children “well away from the weirdness” of his work. (John Medina/Getty Images)
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In 2017, Springsteen told The New York Times that his children had “a healthy disinterest” in his career.
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“We had our children late, I was 40 when our first son was born, and they showed a healthy disinterest in our work over the years. They had their own musical heroes, they had their own music that interested them They “I would be pretty blank if someone mentioned the title of one of my songs, and I always looked at it as if we did a good job,” Springsteen said.
