Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways. — Richard Hell Changing Copy Share Image
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so. — Richard Hell Facts Copy Share Image
The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you. — Richard Hell Convince Copy Share Image
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took… — Richard Hell Cream Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Accounts Copy Share Image
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of… — Richard Hell Building Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,… — Richard Hell Autobiography Copy Share Image
I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside… — Richard Hell Fall Copy Share Image
You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a… — Richard Hell Able Copy Share Image
I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all… — Richard Hell Chains Copy Share Image
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just… — Richard Hell Collapse Copy Share Image
There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about… — Richard Hell Cities Copy Share Image
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt… — Richard Hell Add Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think… — Richard Hell Age Copy Share Image
I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than… — Richard Hell Being smart Copy Share Image
It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the… — Richard Hell Art Copy Share Image
“I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is something the… — Richard Hell Children Copy Share Image
“Amazing how the most obvious things escape your notice. Maybe the truth is exactly the things you don't notice. Maybe the aim… — Richard Hell Focus Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in… — Richard Hell Ifs Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Craze Copy Share Image
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level… — Richard Hell Appreciation Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Autobiography Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be… — Richard Hell Decided Copy Share Image
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a… — Richard Hell Fiction Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Good poetry Copy Share Image
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the… — Richard Hell Autobiography Copy Share Image
There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas. — Richard Hell Areas Copy Share Image
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it… — Richard Hell Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing… — Richard Hell Song Copy Share Image
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their… — Richard Hell Adults Copy Share Image
“It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your… — Richard Hell Great writer Copy Share Image
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You… — Richard Hell Autobiography Copy Share Image
“I walk in the sprinkling rain like a lion. Pretty soon there won't be lions anymore. If I have to die to… — Richard Hell Admire Copy Share Image