Quotes from Marc Spitz

Every time the economy goes south, art grows. If you were an actuary or an accountant you'd consider those years horrid, but if you were an artist, you'd consider them magic.

Bowie sat down for an interview with his Hunger costar Susan Sarandon and explained, "When you're young and you're determined to crack the big dream of 'I have a big statement and the world needs to hear my statement,' there's something a bit irresponsible about your attitude to the future. A nonrecognition that the future exists. I think it's important for youth to have that. My son keeps me remembering that there is a tomorrow.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Black Flag once showed up at Tower Records and totally disrupted Adam Ant during his big in-store appearance… they bombed the place with thousands of flyers saying BLACK FLAG KILLS ANTS ON CONTACT!

the theory that if New York punk was about art, and London punk about politics, L.A. punk was about pop culture, TV, and absurdity.

Salinger, unlike Disney, came from a well-to-do family, but he stands alongside Mickey's inventor as perhaps the second great body of water that feeds all Twee streams, rivers, estuaries, and ponds. His influence on the aesthetic is equally vast, his body of work virtual Twee scripture.

It went from fuck music to fuck-you music.

As with any artistic trend, Twee doesn't become a movement until it gets its own household name. He arrived in the corduroy-draped, beanpole shape of Wes Anderson.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.