Richard Hell
Richard Hell
Richard Hellis an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
atmosphere depict evoke excited highest knew main occurred people poetry talk trying whom
I was going to try to evoke the atmosphere that excited me without trying to actually depict it, ... The main idea was to talk about people for whom poetry was the highest value. ... I just knew I wanted to talk about this kind of way of life, and then it occurred to me to do the Rimbaud-Verlaine thing.
glad great move
It's great for me to move on from that, ... And I'm glad I survived, to be able to.
certain characters far taboo
There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,
book thinking
I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.
loss cities kentucky
There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.
new-york way lasts
Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.
hate thinking might
I usually don't think of anyone ever suspecting that I might be someone who'd cry at stuff. I cry at movies all the time. And sometimes it really pisses me off because I hate it when they're just jerking my chain and it's just like completely manipulative.
tears susceptible
I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.
writing psychology firsts
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.
hurt memories self
The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.
writing thinking interesting
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.
spiritual smart thinking
I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.
real focus relief
You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.