"We can't stay out longer than three weeks without the band breaking up. Working radio, chasing radio and that's how you have to do it. I think you get really burned out that way. I think if we had done that we would have broken up by now."

"We are given the order to attack.  I move without hesitation, the fear anadrenalized buzzing in my blood, my heart alive and kicking in my chest as if it wants out, wants blood."

"It's been a long time since I picked up an issue of  SPIN, as I stopped reading your oversized and colorful publication, which I turned to only after the last air bubbles of Rolling Stones journalistic dignity disappeared beneath the waves of musical integrity..."

"It was Elvis' birthday a few weeks ago. While this fact usually only piques the interest of a few misguided Teddy Boys overseas at this terribly late stage in the game, January 8, 1999 got me to thinking, probably for the first time ever, why Elvis?"

Subatomic Rhapsodies: The Post-Rock Epiphanies of Armchair Electronica, by Matt Ness. 

"In the ever-shifting world of sound and rhythm, every music lover finds that beautiful noise that sends chills down their spine.  For some, it’s that elegiac voice that sings the Bach oratorio with an angel’s grace.  For others, it’s the breakdown moan in a blues guitar instrumental track. But what can we say about those people who find their ears tuned to another frequency, a different drumbeat?"

"More than the art form itself, what truly fascinates is the whole philosophy that supports all of Hamilton’s work. To her, words alone are not enough to understand the world. She believes words are merely feeding the mind, whereas knowledge must come from all the senses and through the body."

"The history of politicians lying, and you can examine this at any level, whether it's Federal, state or local, is such that, if the  lie doesn't involve a direct threat to our freedom, even one removed by  a couple of levels but direct nevertheless, then frankly, we don't  really care."

"One of the world's best kept secrets, the IV is a one passenger space ship that uses the curves of space-time for its "propulsion". So far none  
of the curves has dumped the IV into a black hole, but everybody around here assumes that it's just a matter of time."

"Watching the sun grow out of the jagged mountains relieved  
me and reminded me that I was awake and it was only another dream that  would haunt my day."