Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg
Paul Harold Westerbergis an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band. In recent years, he has cultivated a more independent-minded approach, primarily recording his music at home in his basement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth31 December 1959
CityEdina, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.
I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.
I'd been through crappy day jobs and stupid garage bands. I was determined to make it as a musician.
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.
I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.
I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please
Nobody can miss you unless you go away.