Bob Mould quotes:

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.

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.

...In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like...

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

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

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.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

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.

...Everything you hate is everything that you created.

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.