Steven Van Zandt

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

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

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.