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Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one. -- Paul Westerberg
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician. -- Paul Westerberg
We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension. -- Paul Westerberg
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. -- Paul Westerberg
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. -- Paul Westerberg
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard. -- Paul Westerberg
People like to see human error when it's honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you. -- Paul Westerberg
The truth is overrated. -- Paul Westerberg
I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore. -- Paul Westerberg
There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow. -- Paul Westerberg
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. -- Paul Westerberg
The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll. -- Paul Westerberg
I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody. -- Paul Westerberg
Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. -- Paul Westerberg
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do. -- Paul Westerberg
I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window ... but I can't stop. -- Paul Westerberg
It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. -- Paul Westerberg
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues. -- Paul Westerberg
I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things. -- Paul Westerberg
It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought. -- Paul Westerberg
Nobody can miss you unless you go away. -- Paul Westerberg
I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. -- Paul Westerberg
So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it ... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun. -- Paul Westerberg
Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. -- Paul Westerberg
I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. -- Paul Westerberg
You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever. -- Paul Westerberg
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing. -- Paul Westerberg
Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it. -- Paul Westerberg
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. -- Paul Westerberg
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. -- Paul Westerberg
I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did. -- Paul Westerberg
Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what. -- Paul Westerberg
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy! -- Paul Westerberg
I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone. -- Paul Westerberg
I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies. -- Paul Westerberg
I've had more people in my life take their lives than ... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. -- Paul Westerberg
Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day. -- Paul Westerberg
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. -- Paul Westerberg
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. -- Paul Westerberg
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please -- Paul Westerberg
Stick with your heart and you'll be fine. -- Paul Westerberg
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much. -- Paul Westerberg
I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll. -- Paul Westerberg
I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much. -- Paul Westerberg
