Steven Van Zandt

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

— Steven Van Zandt

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

— Steven Van Zandt

Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

— Steven Van Zandt

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

It's a challenge every year with a TV series. You want to keep evolving and keep it going. That's part of the…

— Steven Van Zandt

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to…

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There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is 'Sgt. Pepper' has something that was just completely…

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I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and…

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I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is…

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Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or…

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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay…

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For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will…

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Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen…

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I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden…

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What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely…

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Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as…

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This conversation with the audience has been going on since, what, '72, '73... Sometimes it's like a conversation after dinner with friends.…

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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…

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

— Steven Van Zandt

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

— Steven Van Zandt

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

— Steven Van Zandt

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about…

— Steven Van Zandt

I was deep into it - worldwide liberation politics as well as domestic - but by the end of the '80s, I…

— Steven Van Zandt

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

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Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first…

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For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very…

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Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small…

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I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band…

— Steven Van Zandt

Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this…

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We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic,…

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A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,…

— Steven Van Zandt

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see…

— Steven Van Zandt

For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock…

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Garage rock is music for older people with young souls and young people with old souls. It's a certain sensibility, and you…

— Steven Van Zandt

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to…

— Steven Van Zandt