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
glad great move
It's great for me to move on from that, ... And I'm glad I survived, to be able to.
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.
mind facts losing
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
certain characters far taboo
There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,