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13 May 2026

I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.

“I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.”

Speaker: Bob Spitz
Episode: Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

What Bob said.

I really studied it as if I were taking a foreign language and had never studied that language before. It gave me an opportunity to spend a good year and a half before I started writing, listening to their music, trying to understand it.