Chris Stein quotes:

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.