Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant read more

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

If music and sweet poetry agree.

If music and sweet poetry agree.