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" 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. "

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" The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don't really philosophically believe in solo records. "

Steven Van Zandt

Personal

Reason

Why

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format. "

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

Steven Van Zandt

Adopted

Mother

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

Steven Van Zandt

Vegas

Mecca

" I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s. "

" 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. "

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

" It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it. "

" Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches. "

" When I was younger, I went through the windshield of a car ,and my hair didn't grow back right. I had been wearing scarves occasionally, and I decided that I didn't want to deal with wigs and things, so I just stumbled onto my thing. "

" 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

" Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. "

" You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't. "

" Primal Scream could be the biggest band in the world. They are fantastic when they make rock records - once every 10 years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. "

Steven Van Zandt

Family

Rock

" Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good. "

" You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose. "

" I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden Era of television - one being 'The Sopranos' with HBO and now with Netflix expanding that whole HBO concept to the world and making it more of a global thing. It's been wonderful to witness that from those two vantage points. "