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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. "

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

" I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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Adopted

Mother

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature. "

" 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. "