I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

- Rob Chapman

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architec…

- Rob Chapman

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

- Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

- Rob Chapman

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

- Rob Chapman

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

- Rob Chapman