"dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."
"I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously."
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Source: Popular music, gender, and postmodernism by Neil Nehring, (p. 94), 1997.
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