There’s something to say about inspiration – when it comes into your life…the feeling is insatiable.

If I’ve got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he’s in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt . . . then I’m definitely meeting him!She stares at me awkwardly, and...

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us–simpatico dudes that we are–while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out....

When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.

Right, Virg. Groupies throw underwear on stage. They don’t throw flowers.

All You Need Is Love” in homage to their memory.

That’s the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

There’s something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It’s really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it’s all for one purpose,...

I just want to be able to write the best songs that we can write. It’s strictly about rock and roll for us.

It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well.

It never was about the musician or the instrument – it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the music itself. It was going to change the world for the better and...

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now.

It’s like George always says: being in a rock ʼn’ roll band is very sexy, even when you’re only the keyboard player and your idea of the perfect Saturday night actually amounts to a bubble...

If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Time collapsed into a delicate dark pencil brushed against oureyebrows, the emergent rumble of crowds gathering above our heads. Weslid into our costumes. Pirate, outlaw, futuristic rebels. Red,purple, gold. Chains hanging from our belts, tight...

Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.

And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body....

I like recording, performing, recording again, performing again ? I love the cycle. I want them to be a band long after the animation has run its course. And I think they will. Above everything,...

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn’t been the same since.

Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up, that’s all.

But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me

When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…

Adrian Cronauer: Goooooooood morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll! Time to rock it from the Delta to the D.M.Z.!

And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost...

Who am I?” She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, “You are my love.

Does he know you’re with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we fuck each other in our dreams every night? ~ Ripp Collins

We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us.

If you don’t like it, Eat me.

From this moment on I’d dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

All language is an aspiration to music.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn’t dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn’t have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive —...

Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my...

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn’t perform, but observes? It’s restless and rude. It’s defiant and daring. It’s a fist shaken at age. It’s a voice that...

You can take and nail two sticks together like they’ve never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters,...

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in...

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

The nose can’t help catchin’ what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil’s been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real hot and making a lot...