[H]e asked Renee, What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties? Renee said, Tits, which in retrospect strikes me as not a bad one-word off-the-dome answer at all. The nineties...
When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go?
We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are also the geekdoms that inspire us to try to convert each other.
Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have t...
They made their greatest music in a five-year rush, starting in 1968: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street. I can’t really argue that the Stones were better when they we...
The early Seventies were a gold rush for double-vinyl samplers from Sixties heavyweights—the Stones’ 1971 Hot Rocks, the Kinks’ 1972 Kink Kronikles, the Doors’ 1972 Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine,...
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
Some people like to make workout tapes and take them to the gym, but I can’t fathom why. Any music I hear in a gym is ruined forever.
Silly Love Songs wanders on for a bizarre and very unpop six minutes. Paul was passionate about music-making, which is different from being passionate about music.
It’s not human to let go of love, even when it’s dead. We expected one of these monthlyanniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we’d said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we...
I've played the song for a lot of people who respond, 'Hmmmm, this is interesting,' but in a way it's more like 'There are two exits in this room, the window and the door. If this song doesn't end soo...
I was looking for glimmers of light, but I only wanted to go looking for them in the hills where the dead spirits hung out.
I made a new friend in the summer of 1999 who wore a rubber band around her wrist with Paul Westerberg’s name written on it. Her favorite song was Unsatisfied and she gave the song back to me, without...
I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history.
I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go thro...
He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.)
Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.
For all karaoke freaks around the nation, Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of song that announces, Dearly beloved, we have so totally gathered here today.
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.
Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.