Why Bruce Springsteen ‘was not comfortable’ in Los Angeles or New York, feels ‘safe’ in New Jersey
nypost.comThe Sunday Times in a new interview. “I feel safe here. This is where my people are, where the folks I wrote about are. I was never a worldly young man.”The “Born to Run” singer said he was “not comfortable in Los Angeles for the time I lived there” during the 80s and 90s and “was not comfortable in New York” either.“I don’t think you can find photographs of me falling out of nightclubs in either of them.
And when Patti and I had children, we were not comfortable about them growing up in Los Angeles. I grew up on a block that had six houses with my relatives in them, so we came back here.
The kids had aunts and uncles nearby and it was a good payoff for not being where the industry is: normal life.” He added, “You know, it’s funny.
You grow up in a place that you weren’t so sure about for a variety of reasons. Then, whether for nostalgia or the feeling that you’re on solid ground, you find yourself returning.
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