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

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.

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

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.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Delta: We never make the same mistake three times.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself.