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
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.
giving thread incidents
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
book moments thread
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.
home
I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.
class sun size
I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.
mind facts losing
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
new-york empires shifting
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.