Are there books or critics about either your music or punk music that you think are especially valuable?
Lester
Bangs and Nick Kent are two people I can think of, off the top of my
head. Both of them, in sort of a flailing, wild, highly subjective way.
But why not! At least the two of them were treating what they write
about like it’s actually important.
I
read the stuff Lester Bangs wrote about me and thought: “Oh no, I’m a
buffoon! But wait: I am a salient blowtorch of nihilism. Cool! Wait, am I
cool or not? I’m not sure!” I have one of his books in hardback. I’ve
had it for a long, long time. It’s sitting on the shelf along with “The
Andy Warhol Diaries,” the collected works of Allen Ginsberg and a few
other books. I look at their spines and think: “O.K., this is what’s
important!”
