Quote of the Day (Bruce Springsteen, on Irish Protest Elements in His New Album)

“I called on a lot of roots and Celtic elements because I use the music to give the story a historical context. ‘Death to My Hometown’ sounds like an Irish rebel song, but it’s all about what happened four years ago. I want to give people a sense that this is something that’s happened over and over again; what happened in 2008 happened before the turn of the century, and just after the turn of the century—it’s a repetitive, historical cycle that has basically landed on the heads of the same people.”—Bruce Springsteen on his new album Wrecking Ball, interviewed by Jon Stewart, in “Bruce Springsteen’s State of the Union,” Rolling Stone Magazine, RS 1153 (March 29, 2012)