“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”

“I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.”

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”