Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run excerpt: Hear him read from memoir in new video

Bruce Springsteen treats fans to multiple excerpts from his autobiography Born to Run in a new video released by the singer.

In the clip, he compares the process of writing a book to the process of writing songs, saying, “It connects up to your musical rules, but you gotta create the music without the music. You gotta find the music in the way that the story moves and the rhythms shift and your voice shifts.”

In one particular moment, Springsteen reads a long, perceptive excerpt about living in 1960s America: “Dread, the sense that things might not work out, that the moral high ground has been swept out from underneath us, that the dream we had of ourselves had somehow been tainted and the future would forever be uninsured was in the air. This was the new lay of the land, and if I was going to put my characters out on that highway, I was going to have to put all those things in the car with them.”

Springsteen previously released a written excerpt from the book. Born to Run is out Sept. 27 and Chapter & Verse, the companion album to the book, drops Sept. 23.