As Springsteen sees it, the creative talent has always been nurtured by the darker currents of his psyche, and wealth is no guarantee of bliss. "I’m thirty years in analysis!" he said. "Look, you cannot underestimate the fine power of self-loathing in all of this. You think, I don’t like anything I’m seeing, I don’t like anything I’m doing, but I need to change myself, I need to transform myself. I do not know a single artist who does not run on that fuel. If you are extremely pleased with yourself, nobody would be fucking doing it! Brando would not have acted. Dylan wouldn’t have written ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’ James Brown wouldn’t have gone ‘Unh!’ He wouldn’t have searched that one-beat down that was so hard. That’s a motivation, that element of ‘I need to remake myself, my town, my audience’—the desire for renewal."I wouldn't say you hafta be miserable to make great art, but I have found you have to be really, really willing to strip yourself down and come face to face with what a shitty loser you are to make honest art. Which, in the end, is what makes great art.
Interestingly, he posts it along with the Dancing in the Dark video, which is funny since as surely there's nothing he can hate more about himself than that goddam video.
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