Next time you're feeling down in the dumps, remember that even The Boss can get the blues.

Bruce Springsteen has opened up about his ongoing battle with depression, saying that he still lives with the fear that he will end up like his troubled father. 

“You don’t know the illness’s parameters,” he said. “Can I get sick enough to where I become a lot more like my father than I thought I might?”

The iconic singer shared the thoughts in a Vanity Fair interview timed to coincide with the release of his autobiography Born to Run. In the book, Springsteen openly recalls battles with his inner demon. 

“I was crushed between sixty and sixty-two, good for a year and out again from sixty-three to sixty-four,” he writes. “Not a good record.” 

Springsteen said relatives from his father's side of the family suffered from various undiagnosed mental health issues, ranging from hair-pulling to agoraphobia.

He described his father as "a bit of a [Charles] Bukowski character" and noted that he never heard him say the words "I love you". 

“The best you could get was... ‘Eh, me, too.’ Even after he had a stroke and he’d be crying, he’d still go, ‘Me, too.’ You’d hear his voice breaking up, but he couldn’t get out the words."

Born to Run is out on September 27.