From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is a participatory sport. It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock 'n' roll and dance… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about three hours. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I didn't care about anything expect rock & roll. So it's nice that it turned out to be something that you find a way… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
