“The thing that makes pop music so great is the way it parallel-parks on the bleeding edge of cool: nothing could be better than this beat, this feeling, this chorus. It takes something ephemeral and impossible, and for three to four exhilarating minutes, it makes it accessible and real.”
-- from Meet Me in the Bathroom (Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City), oral history by Lizzy Goodman, quote by Andy Greenwald, page 287