Today, not only is the personal political, the personal is celebrity.
I need to believe in the artistic validity of the misshapen, or there won’t be a lot of room for me as a writer.
You don’t have to know how you swing the bat, you just have to do it. Later on, you have to step back and pretend you know what the fuck you’re doing and that you have a theory about it.
I don’t consider hopefulness to be a naïve thing or just for the young and the idealistic. The people I respect the most are people that have survived some stuff and they have this hope — that is what they have found.
I’ve always been the kind of person who craves an ending. This has obviously not served me very well in life.
Here’s a look back at some of our favorite, most thought-provoking, funniest, and weirdest conversations of 2013.
As someone who cares about the reputations of these musicians that I write about, I don’t want to participate in the further exiling of them to this weird corner of American music history.
What’s wrong with reading to get to the good stuff?
In reading, we become ghosts. In reading, we can leave the Earth and, as it were, inhabit a different realm.
The powerlessness of words is what interests me.