You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.

knocking up pop stars.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.