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

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

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

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.