I love who I am. I love what I've become.
Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.
There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right Boys and Girls in America Have such a sad time together.
Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.
The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous. ' It's a record I always go back to.
I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
. . . the next revolution. . . will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: No, you dont.
Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.