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" I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd. "

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" What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world. "

Steven Van Zandt

Boss

Anticipation

Person

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour shows. It's just a matter of how long you do it. It's not like the show must be three hours and 30 minutes to work. That's just not the case. "

" There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good. "

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

" 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 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've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes. "

" Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. "

" 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. "

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

" My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me. "

Steven Van Zandt

Adopted

Mother

" 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. "

" I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you. "

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

" Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting. "

" I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist. "

" 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. "

" Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high. "

" 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. "

Steven Van Zandt

My Life

Three

" I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go. "

" I learned a lot from Bruce Springsteen and David Chase. "

" 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. "

" I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left. "

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

" Bands should never break up. "

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

" 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. "

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