Im neuen US-Stone gibts ein langes Bono-Interview von Ian Wenner. Darin äußert sich Bono auch ausführlich über Bruce:
Wenner: What about Bruce Springsteen ?
Bono: Bruce taught us so much – how to play arenas, and not rip people off, how to communicate to the back of the stalls, how to be emotional, how to be operatic and not overblown, how to have dignity
Yet we couldn’t be more different. Back in the Eighties I remember saying to Bruce, „All these characters in your songs. Why don’t you write about yourself ?“ He looked at me and said, „What’s there to write about ?“. What;s my life. I play gigs. I go home. you know chastising me with his humility.“
Wenner: What’s your personal relationship with him like ?
Bono: We both belong to the big top. I think he’s bemused that I’m still up on the tightrope. As a big brother he would advise a net. He’s careful, considered. Bruce taught me some very valuable lessons, like how to hold on to your life as a civilian and how to disappear out the back door in your civvies, back to ordinary life. I’d like to teach him a few lessongs, too.
Wenner: Like ?
Bono: How to crawl out of a nightclub on your hands and knees by pretending you’ve lost some loose change….And then magic tricks, like how to disappear into a continent like Afr4ica, where people relaly don’t know who you are.
Wenner: What are your favorite Bruce songs ?
Bono: Darkness On The Edge of Town, the early Van Morrison influenced stuff. The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. And his Elvis-like howl. It’s a huanting and spooky music he can make. It turns up here and there on the last album. I don’t know the landscapes he’s traveling through. I like when they’re topsy-turvy, and when, like on that album, you feel you might get lost.
If Dylan is Faulkner, then Springsteen is Steinbeck. He’s one of the great guitar players, by the way. And I always admire a man who marries above his station – Patti is hot stuff, that red-haired woman. You can’t not like a person who goes home to her.
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