Quotes by Paul Westerberg

About Paul Westerberg:

Paul Harold Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band. In recent years, he has cultivated a more independent-minded approach, primarily recording his music at home in his basement.
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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

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

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

Paul Westerberg

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

Paul Westerberg

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

Paul Westerberg

It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

Paul Westerberg

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Paul Westerberg

I'm not dissatisfied with my place in it rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

Paul Westerberg

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

Paul Westerberg

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

Paul Westerberg

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

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

Paul Westerberg

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.

Paul Westerberg

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out f...

Paul Westerberg

A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

Paul Westerberg

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

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

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 hom...

Paul Westerberg

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

Paul Westerberg

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Westerberg
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornDecember 31, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Musician; Singer