71 Quotes by Paul Westerberg

I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.

It’s fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it’s still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I’m still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person’s voice or vision. Hence, “grandpa-boy.” I’m an old man, but I’m a boy. A really old boy!

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they’re no artist. If it’s in your blood, it can’t stop flowing.

Having a diverse sense of taste – or lack of taste – I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

I’d been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.

Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have to quit.

The best I can say is that it’s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It’s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.