"I was there with my parents and Bruce Springsteen walks in. I'm like, 'Oh my God, you guys, that's Bruce Springsteen!' My dad says, 'Who?' And I say, 'Dad, he was just on the cover of Time magazine!'" Martha recalled. "Springsteen leaned over to me and said, 'Hey, aren't you on that new thing, MTV?' And I said, 'Well, that's more than I can say for you... when are you gonna make some videos?!' He then made all those great videos from the Born in the U.S.A. album. So, I like to think I'm kind of responsible for launching Bruce into the video age."
While she's all about taking credit for Bruce's music video heyday, in a previous interview with CBS News, Martha Quinn revealed that the VJs didn't actually watch the clips they introduced.
"That's the best-kept secret," Martha said. "It wouldn't make sense for the camera people to turn on the camera for a total of six minutes an hour, and then to be sitting there watching [the rock band] Asia. It seems so obvious now, but it wasn't obvious to us at the time. We turned our heads as though we were looking at a monitor. We didn't do that in the beginning."