"The past inside the present... Overwhelmingly, confusingly beautiful... a blurred noise akin to cutting wrists at the peak of Everest. Slowly dying on the roof of the world in slow motion..."
"Here are the young men, a weight on their shoulders... and there we all were, 17 years old - ready for new kinds of music. Another time and place. The most incredible reward."
"Can the world be as sad it seems... Gen and his Psychic Youth made us hang our battered, swollen heads in disgust at what they did - then laughed at us for buying into their so-called art."
"A tiny, inadequate boy, trapped in the body of a man - listen to him crying and feel your cheeks burn with shame at the beauty of someone's emotional turmoil."
"The startling beauty of Sid Vicious and Mozart from the outset. Never has 'Dynamic' been such an inadequate descriptive term for the sound of kid's minds collapsing through sheer boredom."
