"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

"If you're going to be a journalist, you have to be prepared to get your hands dirty."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our mothers and our lovers and friends, we have fa…"

"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that kills, now it's the speed that saves. Cocaine is a hell of a drug."