Bob Mould Quotations

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.