I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you've just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews and articles and pinups and posters to follow our favourite artists. Nowadays? Twitter is actually the new rock magazine.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.
My mom is definitely my rock.
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.
I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
