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.

I like critics with strong opinions.

May the grace of God keep you strong through every difficulty.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him