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.

- Steven Van Zandt

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning…

- 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, friendship and community.

- Steven Van Zandt

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

- 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

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

- Steven Van Zandt

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 som…

- 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 three hours.

- 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