ON “CBS THIS MORNING,” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN OPENS UP ABOUT PARENTING: “THERE WERE A LOT OF MISTAKES I DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE”

ON “CBS THIS MORNING,” BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN OPENS UP ABOUT PARENTING: “THERE WERE A LOT OF MISTAKES I DIDN’T WANT TO MAKE”

Legendary singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen offered new insight into his relationships with his father and children during an interview with CBS THIS MORNING co-host Gayle King. Springsteen told King his complicated relationships with his father influenced how he raised his own kids.

“You’ve written a lot and sung about the relationship with your dad, your family that you’ve described as complicated in the past. But at the end of his life … you all managed to work that out?” King asked.

“Pretty well,” he said. “Better than, in some ways, I hoped for. You know, usually you don’t expect those things to have a lovely conclusion in some way, you know?” 

CBS News’ free 24/7 news streaming service, CBSN, will air Gayle King’s full interview in a special called “A Conversation with Bruce Springsteen” Friday at 8:00 PM, ET.

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Excerpts:

- On the type of father he wanted to be: “Yeah, there were a lot of mistakes I didn’t want to make. And I think the way you look at it is, like, I don’t want my kids to have to dig themselves out of my hole. They’re going to have their own hole they have to dig themselves out of. That’s just part of life, you know? Now, you’re always going to – we always pass something along...And that’s just – that’s just life, you know?”

- His response to criticism from President Trump: “It’s just frightening, you know? We’re living in a frightening time...The stewardship of the nation is – has been thrown away to somebody who doesn’t have a clue as to what that means. You know? I mean, the United States of America is in your care. Do you know what the stakes are? Do you know what that means? And unfortunately we have somebody who I feel doesn’t have a grasp of the deep meaning of what it means to be an American.”

- On his voice: “Yeah, I never cared for my voice … I still don’t listen to it. It always sounds like I’m just waking up or something. I don’t know.”