Jessica Hopper > Quotes

“I want it. I need it. Because all these records, they give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am. Because there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“No girl escapes teenhood without a keen awareness of exactly how the world sees her, what it expects of her; she knows the weight of the world’s desire for her down to the ounce.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“Dancing in pitch-dark rooms, rooms illuminated exclusively by the tiny light on the turntable, is an activity which fits very well with my ideas of “rock-critic behavior” (which is like normal music-fan behavior, but substantially more pitiful and indulgent).”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“It is on my short list of why I will one day move to the woods. Nothing is grosser than people after last call.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.”
― Jessica Hopper

“Because there is a void in my guts that can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“If she is ‘made up’—well, she is the one who made herself up.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“The reason I cried was the sacrifices. There’s been too many. Too many little things that I didn’t know were on the line.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper