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 More Quotes by Paul Westerberg More Quotes From 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 home years thinking 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 forever morning mean 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 cracks voice sound By the fourth or fifth record there was not a lot of time to sit around. We [The Replacements] stopped rehearsing. We stopped getting together and rehearsing. We'd perform, and that would take it all out of us. Then we'd be done touring and we'd be sick of each other. We'd never call each other up and hang out. Paul Westerberg sick done together Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day. Paul Westerberg timeless records sound 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 four feet snow 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 rock-and-roll rocks band Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one. Paul Westerberg falling-in-love clever song 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 music people thinking 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 falling-in-love song people I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll. Paul Westerberg dissatisfied rock-n-roll rocks 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 dad music mom The truth is overrated. Paul Westerberg overrated truth-is truth Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. Paul Westerberg kids children school 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 suicide darkness writing 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 rhythm-and-blues stupidity different I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone. Paul Westerberg should lost thinking 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 replacements albums opinion 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 me you time window 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 me you long son
