"Almost everything I listened to was British in my early teens. It still amazes me that this small, secluded island has produced so much. But aged 23 or 24 Springsteen’s Born To Run reminded me that the stories in America are different and it took me back across the ocean. I had used British music for escapism but I suddenly understood America. It was about people and places that I know about. Bruce Springsteen stopped me making a fool of myself trying to do an English accent."
- Brandon Flowers, The Killers for Q magazine, 2011.
