In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me