Her grandfather, she said, would invite her to join him at the piano.
“I was 7 or 8 year old, and I would play piano with him.
Or this one, when the notes go here?'
My opinion actually mattered to him,” she said.
He always had the best bands, you knew that.
And you knew that he was serious.
He was the man with the focus and the tremendous dedication to what he was doing."
She called the number listed in the ad, and Springsteen picked up.
“He was very sweet on the phone,” she said.
“I was so relieved.”
Afterreportsemerged in 1988 that Springsteen and Scialfa were having an affair, Phillips filed for divorce.
They weren’t youngsters when they tied the knot; Springsteen was 41, Scialfa 37.
I did a lot of that," she toldRolling Stoneof the process of making “Rumble Doll.”
More than a decade later, Scialfa released a follow-up, her 2004 album “23rd Street Lullaby.”
Her subsequent release, “Play It As It Lays,” came out in 2007.
This, Springsteen explained in an interview withAmerican Songwriter, is most definitely the case in the studio.
Springsteen raved about his wife’s contributions during those recording sessions.
She’s quite good at production," Springsteen gushed.
“She had all these different vocal parts and it was just incredibly creative.”
“He’s part of the family,” she said in an interview withRolling Stone.
(Roth also used some songs from her 1993 solo debut “Rumble Doll"in the movie.)
“Motherless Child,” Scialfa explained, was a song she’d been working on for ages.
“I thought to myself, ‘This will be perfect for his film,” she added.
As Scialfa toldRolling Stone, that hasn’t always gone down well with the couple’s children.
Additionally, Springsteen and Scialfa’s children are thoroughly unimpressed that their parents are rock stars.
Joining husband Bruce Springsteen, the couple played themselves in “Broken Poet.”
Springsteen and Scialfa make a brief appearance in the film, portraying themselves.
Speaking withRolling Stone, Scialfa described what their life had been like during those months.
I’m giving him a haircut.
He doesn’t have a shirt on.
I look like I’m a crazy woman.”
However, Scialfa also admitted she’s proud of her newly acquired skill as a hairstylist.
“I am the master of the scissors in residence,” she declared.
“I give him a haircut every month and a half.”
However, her parents’ reactions when watching her compete are as different as night and day.
“My mom gets nervous because she wants me to do well,” she explained.
“A Jersey girl has toughness,” Scialfa declared.
“She’s game, tomboyish, free of spirit, and very human and humble.”
“It just naturally goes that way.
It’s so humid in Jersey!
“It’s who you are,” she explained.
“You’re a Jersey girl.”
Listening to that song also led to a quandary for Scialfa.
“Do I want to date The Beatles?”
she recalled during her speech (viaYouTube).
“Or do I wanna beinThe Beatles?
… Well, I guess I’m a lucky girl.
“Bruce and I set the first priority in the children,” she explained.
Scialfa is a firm believer in not spreading herself too thin, particularly when it comes to motherhood.
“That was more important to me than my ambition,” she shared.
“I think women are torn all the time: Do they work?
Do they not work?”
“And when we walk offstage we’re husband and wife.”
“And the amazing thing is that only takes about four months.
“I’m going for anything except the Boss,” he quipped.
