Bob Mould Quotations

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am!

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

...Everything you hate is everything that you created.

...In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like...

Maybe if I get off the road and stop playing with punk rock bands, there'll be a lot more records. It would probably involve me getting out of the conventional music business as we know it and heading more towards a self-sufficient, self-structured release-type thing. I wouldn't expect a regular label to keep up with the amount of stuff that I've got, or the amount of stuff I would have if I could just sit in a room and just write music.

Helping to put together five hours of live TV every week is not easy!

I was a lifelong fan and a student of the wrestling business. When I got the call to come over as a consultant for that, to help with the production of a regular TV show, I was floored. It was a dream come true, like managing a football team would be for some people or whatever.

I think same-sex marriage is an issue that won't be settled soon, nor will the need to change public perception fade away next year.

When I was 22, it didn't matter; I could bounce back quicker. There's something in my mind... about not wanting to tarnish that. I don't wanna overstay my welcome.

We really cover the whole spectrum and it's a hoot. It's meant to be a really up, fun show. And it's a nice reward for me personally, since I've never gone back and revisited some of this stuff. And for other people, it's a reward for bearing with me.

I used to live too much of my life worrying about what other people thought, ... My dark and introspective life was solitary. It was valid, (but now) I finally feel like I have a family. I'm integrated. My friends are really important to me, and they have a lot to do with why this record is so (expletive) cool.

After I did the solo acoustic tour last year, I felt like I was in a position to start working with people again. I think the shroud of Husker Du was finally laid to rest, and people who wanted to were able to hear those songs for what was probably the last time. So having personally cleared the slate, it just seemed like a good idea to get some people together.

That song was definitely about somebody going back in the closet,

The best scenario is where people support the artist directly. We're a ways from that yet-if people can get it for free, why would they pay?

I just needed some time to get away from it. I was just tired of it. Tired of being the rock guitar guy. After 20 years of it, I just sort of hit the wall. Yeah, I know that's my bread and butter so to speak, that's my ace card. In my position I was watching a lot of-with the risk of sounding egotistical-lesser quality people doing a lot better with my sound.

I can be difficult. I'll be the first to admit to that. I try! I try to Clint Black.

The club night was an extension of making the record. We've written it over the past couple years, but we just need to tighten up the sounds a little bit.