Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along.

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.