Quotes from Paul Westerberg

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

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.

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.

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

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.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

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.

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.

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers.

Try to free a slave with ignorance / Try and teach a whore about romance

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

The truth is overrated.