Paul Westerberg

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

— Paul Westerberg

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…

— Paul Westerberg

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of…

— Paul Westerberg

I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches…

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Paul Westerberg

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Paul Westerberg

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please

— 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…

— Paul Westerberg

Some records are timeless, and some absolutely sound of their day.

— Paul Westerberg

I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to…

— Paul Westerberg

We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it…

— Paul Westerberg

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

— Paul Westerberg

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

— Paul Westerberg

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

— Paul Westerberg

I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's…

— Paul Westerberg

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just…

— Paul Westerberg

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated…

— Paul Westerberg

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think…

— Paul Westerberg

There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of…

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Paul Westerberg

Depressed Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm…

— 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…

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Paul Westerberg

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

— Paul Westerberg