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If a picture is worth a thousand words, those words would be untrue in the case of Chris Christie’s photo taken at a recent Bruce Springsteen concert, the New Jersey governor insisted.

A concert-goer snapped a picture of the governor with his head back and eyes closed during Springsteen’s April 10 appearance at Madison Square Garden. According to a report on You Don’t Know Jersey, some fans even tried unsuccessfully to wake him up.

Not true, Christie said on Thursday.

“What happened was, during 'Rocky Ground,' which is a really spiritual song, people sat. So I sat up on the seat, and I put my head back and closed my eyes and listened to the song," Christie was quoted as saying in an Associated Press report that appeared in The Wall Street Journal. "When I was fist-pumping during 'Badlands,' nobody took pictures during that. When I was singing to 'Out in the Street,' thankfully, no one took pictures of that."

Christie told reporters in Trenton that he was more likely to die at a Springsteen concert that fall asleep at one. While he and the Boss often don’t see eye to eye when it comes to politics, the governor loves Springsteen’s music and has attended nearly 130 Springsteen concerts.

"I have never fallen asleep at a Bruce Springsteen show and I will never fall asleep at a Bruce Springsteen show," Christie said, according to Bloomberg News.

The governor wasn’t right about everything he said at the new conference — he said that his wife, Mary Pat, didn’t attend the concert with him.

“I was there,” she interjected from her seat in the audience at the press conference, although she did miss a show in Philadelphia later that week.

“Oh, you were there,” the governor replied. "Well, she took one night off. It was dark. What did I know? I was a little tired."

Christie, who returned the day before the concert from a junket in the Middle East, says he buys his tickets from band members Max Weinberg or Steven Van Zandt at face value.

--JOE GREENE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM