Words matter. These are the best Neil Strauss Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook ‘likes’ and Twitter followers than they do.
I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.
Because it’s so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, ‘likes’ and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art – or even into their own Web ventures.
Dating is for tools.
Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose – that it was roamin’ all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can’t tell the difference.
Fame won’t make you feel any better about yourself.
The trick, when you’re flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone’s attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there’s a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It’s a shame.
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they’re really boring to read.
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.
Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they’re barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the ‘Village Voice,’ and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?
People don’t come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.
A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.
Since I was 18, I’ve been under orders from magazines and newspapers – chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone – to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn’t always succeed.
I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it’s storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what’s right for the story, I enjoy doing it.
I’ve begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
A lot of women – not all of them, a lot of them – feel insecure about men being men.
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it’s because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family – plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That’s what I learned about male-female relationships.
I’ve noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.
