In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

Why doncha come on over to the house and I'll show 'em to ya?

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

Hair growing out every hole in me.

Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

Music is always a commentary on society.