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" 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. "

Steven Van Zandt

Believe

People

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" Go out and support your local rock n' roll band. "

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" Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went into that. "

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" Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean. "

" My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican. "

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Father

" Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation. "

" It's a challenge every year with a TV series. You want to keep evolving and keep it going. That's part of the fun. "

" The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order. "

" You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract. "

" I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team. "

" Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements. "

" In 'The Sopranos,' these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they're looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real. "

" I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual. "

" I'm always surprised when a sequel is not as good or better than the first one. I never understand that. You've already set your own bar. You've already done the hard work. It should be easier to make the second one, but a lot of the times, it's not. "

" Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way. "

" You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals. "

" Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts. "

" I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard. "

" I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. "

" Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. "

" I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me. "

Steven Van Zandt

Need

Big Picture

" I am Italian. Springsteen's mostly Italian, too. We're both Italians with Dutch names, one of the many things we have in common. "

" 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. "

" You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit. "

" 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. "

" The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything. "

" 'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am. "

" Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather. "