AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I like critics with strong opinions.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

It's not easy being the sane one!

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.

My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.