“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 you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!”

American musician and actor

Steven Van Zandt, also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, where he plays guitar and mandolin. He has also built a parallel career in television, with roles in several drama series. He is widely recognized for playing Silvio Dante in The Sopranos and Frank Tagliano, also called Giovanni “Johnny” Henriksen, in Lilyhammer. Since the 1980s, he has also led his own solo group, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul.