Springsteen is probably my favorite artists to be seen or read interviewed. He speaks with a calm intelligence; he doesn't try to make himself out to be an expert or a scholar, he just thinks before he speaks, which is an undervalued quality (or maybe it's overrated. Trent Lott, according to Salon.com's Right Hook worked on a line "for a while" to properly describe John Kerry, and unveiled his masterpiece of King's English at a rally in Mississippi: John Kerry is "a French-speaking socialist from Boston, Massaschusetts, who is more liberal than Ted Kennedy." A while? It probably took more time to wash your white hood, Trent. But I have to give him credit, it's better than the original line: "That John Kerry is one hell of a n****r lover.").

Anyway, there's an interview with the Boss on backstreets.com. And he's on Nightline tonight.

To balance this out, here's a Jessica Simpson diet tip, courtesy of Cosmo: "I have two bites of a piece of chocolate cake and then throw out the rest." For cardio, she kickboxes the homeless people who try and dig it out of the dumpster.