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" I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca. "

Steven Van Zandt

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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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" To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something. "

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" 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! "

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" My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. "

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" They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America. "

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" '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. "

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" The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic. "

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" I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times. "

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" This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends. You're in a restaurant, and you got there at 8 o'clock. Suddenly, you realize it's midnight. Where did the time go? You're enjoying the conversation. It's sort of a natural, organic conversation. "

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" Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine. "

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" For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change. "

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