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- "A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they ..."
- "A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed ..."
- "After Fargo Rock City I got all these offers to write about metal, and I ..."
- "Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy ..."
- "Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - ..."
- "At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, ..."
- "At about the same time, Charles Aaron, who also read "Fargo Rock City" and was ..."
- "Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year ..."
- "Byrne asked me to do a reading with Dave Eggers and Lydia Davis, and at ..."
- "Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't ..."
- "Five years ago, I thought I was going to write for newspapers; if I worked ..."
- "How do I put this? There are a lot of smart people writing about music ..."
- "I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened ..."
- "I am very sensitive about every word and every style of punctuation and every idea ..."
- "I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing ..."
- "I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo ..."
- "I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio ..."
- "I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way ..."
- "I probably thought more about GNR, Motley Crue, and KISS than anyone else in America. "
- "I still have a hard time understanding how I would warrant that. But, I don't ..."
- "I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at ..."
- "I was hyper-fascinated with it, with music and film and television, but in a way ..."
- "I would love to date Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged, but I fear she might ..."
- "I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking ..."
- "If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're ..."
- "If you're reviewing a concert and it's 11 o'clock at night, basically anything you write ..."
- "In Fargo Rock City I talk about Guns N' Roses a lot, which might seem ..."
- "In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For ..."
- "Instead of being in a band, they figure, well I'll just become friends with them. "
- "It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I ..."
- "It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, ..."
- "My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carver's Gazebo: 'That morning she pours Teacher's ..."
- "One problem with magazine writing is that the people who do it often have not ..."
- "People always say to me, "I bet when you were in college or growing up ..."
- "Since I like to keep my popsicles at absolute zero, I employ Kelvin more than ..."
- "That was really weird, a very weird thing. I got an email that day that ..."
- "The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home ..."
- "The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to ..."
- "The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just ..."
- "The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book ..."
- "The New York-based rock band The Liars are terrible. "
