Sublime

The ideal collision of vulgarity and high-mindedness.”

The karaoke principle: if you can’t fix it, flaunt it.

The Stones were Stonesier. The Beatles were merely better.

Aging hipsters and corduroy-clad high school sophomores are both primarily concerned with dodging lameness.

Everybody used to assume the Beatle myth was driving the music—it turned out to be the other way around.

Pop stardom, the way he defined it, means you keep feeling fascination for the now sound right up to the moment—you don’t settle for what you did yesterday. You tune in to the pop trash all over the radio dial for any ideas worth scavenging.