Overview

• In the newly published TIME interview, Bruce Springsteen says he was a “complicated, messy person” and that Patti Scialfa “saw me for who I really was,” adding they were “each other’s personal projects.”
• The interview arrives ahead of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the biopic opening Oct. 24 and starring Jeremy Allen White.
• He revisits his first marriage to Julianne Phillips (1985–1989) and how the 1987 album Tunnel of Love wrestled with intimacy and relationship strain.
• Scialfa joined the E Street Band in 1984; she and Springsteen married in 1991 and have three children: Evan James, Jessica Rae, and Samuel Ryan.
• He has previously said marriage “did matter” and was different from living together, explaining his decision to wed again after a painful divorce.