58 Quotes by Richard Hell

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.