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.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these...

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones...

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...

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...

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

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't...

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create,...