A Conversation with Bruce Hornsby (continued)

PM: Are you what you'd call a spiritual person?

BH: Well, I definitely have that side to me, yes.

PM: Any special orientation?

BH: Well, grew up in Christian Science. My mother is a practitioner. And so there's a lot of that that stays with me.

PM: That's very interesting. And does a guy as busy as yourself find time or make time to read?

BH: Oh, yeah.

PM: Of course.

BH: Oh, good lord.

PM: Anything turn you on, or around, lately?

BH: Well, seeing the great movie Capote made me finally read In Cold Blood, which I thought was truly great.

PM: Philip Seymour Hoffman was amazing in that movie, oh my God.

BH: He really was, yeah. So yeah, I loved that. Oh, what the hell did I just read? I'm finally getting around to reading the old Updike book Rabbit Run that I'd never read. Being an old jock, I'm enjoying that. I'm about in the middle of that. But there's always something.

PM: Oh, I'm picking those two up. That's a good turn-on.

BH: Yeah, two or three books--I'm in the middle of the third volume of the Taylor Branch Civil Rights history. This one is called At Canaan's Edge. A Pillar of Fire was the second one. Parting the Waters was the first one, and the most well-known. Anyway, in the middle of that I'm reading a crazy physics book called Warped Passages by--I think her name is Lisa Randall. So I've got all sorts of great--

PM: As varied as your musical approach.

[laughter]

BH: Yeah, I guess so.

PM: Well, you and I could talk all day, obviously.

BH: I think we certainly could, yes.

PM: And I look forward to running into you in person sometime again down the line.

BH: Oh, you know what the other very interesting book--you asked about religion and spirituality--the book I just read before John Updike's, before getting into the Rabbit Run, is--it's sort of a best-seller now, it's called Misquoting Jesus. This guy Bart Ehrman, who teaches at Chapel Hill, he basically was a true believer until he became a biblical scholar and started finding out how much was changed in the Bible, and how much we cannot count on the words of the Bible literally--

PM: Thank you.

[laughter]

BH: And he gets so specific with it, which is just really very interesting.

PM: I think I heard him on NPR recently.

BH: Most likely.

PM: I'm going to jump on that.

Bruce, really fun talking to you.

BH: My pleasure, Frank. Great to talk to you.

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