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
killing wanted decided
I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.
war media vietnam
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
stories ends born
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.
believe people i-believe
I believe in people treating each other with respect.
play hard
I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.
years realizing poetry-is
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
past artist media
It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.
writing interesting consciousness
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.
thinking interesting age
When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.
sex perfect pistols
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.
appreciation art attitude
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
writing years people
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.
girl rocks purpose
The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.
character kind punk
There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.