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" A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it. "
War
You
Name
" As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor. "
Craft
Walk
You
" As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind. "
Beautiful
Mind
Peace
" Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart. "
Team
Sports
Working Together
" Bands should never break up. "
Break Up
Break
Never
" Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements. "
Structure
Art
Before
" Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig. "
Roll
Being
Rock
" Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be. "
Believe
People
Me
" Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly. "
Something
Lightly
Taken
" C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts. "
Sleeping
World
Water
" Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. "
Successful
Life
Afraid
" First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. "
Tea
Political
People
" For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change. "
Change
World
Money
" For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know? "
Impossible
Know
Me
" For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing. "
Work
Most
People
" Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you may have it when you're 17 or when you're 67. "
Music
Old
People
" Go out and support your local rock n' roll band. "
Rock
Local
Go
" Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! "
Rock
World
Personality
" I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me. "
People
Unique
Me
" I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. "
I Am
Names
Things
" I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s. "
Believe
Will
Now
" I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever. "
Acting
Years
New
" I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man. "
Slow
You
Lose
" I didn't care about anything expect rock & roll. So it's nice that it turned out to be something that you find a way to make a living from. "
Rock
You
Living
" I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose. "
Wake Up
Write
Day
" I grew up in a renaissance period, a very lucky time when the greatest music ever made was also the most commercial. We'll never see that again, so for me, there's only one criteria, which is greatness. That's all I care about. Is what I'm doing reaching for greatness? Whether I achieve it or not, that is one hundred percent of my criteria. "
Doing
Time
Music
" I had the wonderful good luck of having Jimmy Gandolfini as my mentor and David Chase as my godfather, two of the most talented guys in the history of television. "
Good Luck
Good
Mentor
" I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. "
Way
World
Modern
" I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong. "
Building
Regret
Love
" I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into. "
How
Band
Sound
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