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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Steven Van Zandt

Good

Tradition

Personal

" Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig. "

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

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

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

" 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

" Life should never be boring. "

" 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! "

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

Steven Van Zandt

Shocking

Thing

" I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that. "

" 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. "

" Rock n' roll is a participatory sport. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun. "

" 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

" As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media's power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind. "

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

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

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

" For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know? "

Steven Van Zandt

Impossible

Know

" 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 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. "

Steven Van Zandt

Chemistry

Level

" 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 was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.' "

" There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment. "

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