Bruce Springsteen admits hes only the boss for 3 hours onstage then wife Patti Scialfa takes over at home

Turns out there is some surrender for Bruce Springsteen.The singer 75, and his wife, Patti Scialfa, recently shared how their dynamic changes from performing onstage with the E Street Band to being at home with just one another.“I think the most difficult part of being married to Bruce Springsteen, and also being in a band with him, is that you could go home and he could still think he’s in charge, right?” Howard Stern asked Scialfa, 71, on the Wednesday episode of The Howard Stern Show.“How does one manage that? Was there an actual discussion where you had to map out, especially for your children, how Bruce should behave at home,” he continued.

“Not really.I always tried not to be a wife on stage.

I really did,” Scialfa replied.“I didn’t wanna bring that on stage.

And Bruce always has this great saying, and he says, ‘It’s like on stage it’s, you know, but as soon as I get my foot off the stage…'”Springsteen chimed in: “It’s over baby.”“It’s over,” she quipped.“I’m only boss for three hours,” the musician admitted to Stern, 70.“Then I surrender the title, happily.”Giving insight into their family life, with kids Evan, 34, Jessica, 32, and Samuel, 30, Scialfa shared, “You walk into our home, especially when the kids were growing up, you wouldn’t know what anybody did for a living there.”Scialfa, who has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984, added, “There was nothing in the house that indicated there’s somebody famous in the house or this is an overwhelming situation.

There are no pictures that related to the work or anything.”In fact, their children didn’t even know they had famous parents until they were a bit older.“Our kids didn’t know what we did until one day,” Springsteen recalled.“I think Evan came home from first grade, no, much later, even second or third, ‘Hey dad, what’s ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out?'” referencing his famous dad’s hit from the 1975 album “Born to ...