Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

the total output of human creativity, in all its kaleidoscopic breadth, pieces together the fabric forming our culture.

The group known as the Weimar Classicists, led by the towering figure of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ushered in a new kind of individualism that was emotional rather than rational, artistic rather than scientific. The period of the Romantic individualist had begun.

Bruce Springsteen once said in an interview: “Most people’s stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography and they’re trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history.”