Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. > Status Update

“‘Listen to me, motherfucker, listen.’ Getting right up in my face. ‘Mine ain't about yours. And yours ain't about mine. We all suffer the same. You don't get to decide what hurts you. You just hurt. Let me say my shit, and you say your shit, and I'll be there for you. Okay?’

[…] It's always going to be important to acknowledge someone else's pain, but denying your own pain doesn't do that.”

“Life is short and you should wake up in the morning feeling excited about what you do. And if you don't and you can afford to stop, you should stop. Even if it makes some people angry.”

“Nobody reaches the end of their life and regrets even a single moment of creating something, no matter how shitty or unappreciated that something might have been.”

“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art.“

“At the very least, I wish everyone had a way to kill time without hurting anyone, including themselves.“

“Everybody wants meaning in their life, and we all find it in different ways. For me it was buying records.”

“I was never an outright enemy of any clique, nor was I ever fully absorbed and identified as a part of any distinct group. I was a misfit, but I was aware I had it better than the true outcasts. That didn't stop me from feeling alienated and irrationally repulsed by most of my classmates.”