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

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.

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

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.

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

Heightism is the last unchecked prejudice.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.