I like critics with strong opinions.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

The more people I meet the happier I become.

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.