This comes in from the ESQUIRE MAGAZINE. Little Steven had a sit-down with Ryan D’Agostino. Their “Interview” comes as a write-up of just the quotes – not the questions. I like that a lot!

This might have been the best piece, of the very few, by Steven of the last couple of month. Although there is not one single reference to John or the Jukes, it’s worth being posted here – so here’s an extract with some of my favourites:

The Super Bowl — they ask us every year, literally for twenty-five years. Since Born in the U.S.A. You can only do it once, I guess. You want to save some things.

Here’s the wonderful thing that Bruce Springsteen and David Chase are capable of: Those two guys have the remarkable talent of transporting you to their own time zone, to their own rhythm, and slowing things down. That’s an extraordinarily important talent these days, when everything is temporary and disposable and going by at a hundred miles an hour. In the old days, they would have been called wizards, because they control time.

Scandinavia is another planet. They get health care, education, there’s no homeless, they barely have a prison system. We joke about how they’re overtaxed, but it’s the same fucking 50 percent I’m paying.

Art is not a luxury.

To have impact in two minutes and thirty seconds — that’s very hard to do. It’s much easier to write Pink Floyd’s The Wall than it is to write “Louie Louie.”

Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.

In Europe, everybody in the audience has the new record before they come to the show. Why? Because that’s the script of the stage production they’re about to see and participate in. They come, and they all sing every word of every song. They don’t move, they don’t go to the bathroom, they don’t order hot dogs.

You can read the whole “Interview” at: ESQUIRE MAGAZINE

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