Celebrities are really not that different from the average person...just worse.

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

I still have some hope for humanity despite having pretty much given up on human beings.

This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.