Quotes by Richard Hell

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldn't see where to go with it that wouldn't be fatal.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

I was into stomping noise and violence and confrontation. I chose that, and so did Rimbaud and Lautramont. I wasn't looking for some kind of intellectual soulmates.

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.