“It’ll be just like Bruce Springsteen locking himself in his bedroom and recording Nebraska,” said Ruskin, referring to the New Jersey–born rock legend’s sparse, deeply haunting album of 1982. “Except instead of creating a timeless masterpiece that perfectly encapsulates the struggles and dashed dreams of blue-collar Americans, I’ll be haphazardly slapping together a piece of total shit that proves I don’t know the first thing about good music, much less about truth and the human condition.”

via the onion