I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry..

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal..

I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a lot less mystique in playing in a rock band today….

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities..

African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single ….

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the worl….

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel..

[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silen….

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the r….

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to ….

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told….

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carv….

Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I fe….

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words..

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto..

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction..

I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. ….

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And your….

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will….

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does..