22 Quotes by Chris Stein

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

CS: I always say there’s a tribal element in a rock concert. There’s a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

A thing we always talk about in today’s culture is that nobody is an outsider – everybody’s kind of a hipster on the inside.