Steven Van Zandt

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

— Steven Van Zandt

In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original.

— Steven Van Zandt

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

— Steven Van Zandt

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

— Steven Van Zandt

Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably…

— Steven Van Zandt

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

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…

— Steven Van Zandt

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a…

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this…

— Steven Van Zandt

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their…

— Steven Van Zandt

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in…

— Steven Van Zandt

I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and…

— Steven Van Zandt

When I was younger, I went through the windshield of a car ,and my hair didn't grow back right. I had been…

— Steven Van Zandt

'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a…

— Steven Van Zandt

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics,…

— Steven Van Zandt

I'm always surprised when a sequel is not as good or better than the first one. I never understand that. You've already…

— Steven Van Zandt

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

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I just love that whole Brill Building era. I will always regret not being there. That's where I belong.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

— Steven Van Zandt

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

— Steven Van Zandt

I tried to get Primal Scream to come over to America several times.

— Steven Van Zandt