The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic Quotes

“I want it. I need it. Because all these records, they give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am. Because there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“No girl escapes teenhood without a keen awareness of exactly how the world sees her, what it expects of her; she knows the weight of the world’s desire for her down to the ounce.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“Dancing in pitch-dark rooms, rooms illuminated exclusively by the tiny light on the turntable, is an activity which fits very well with my ideas of “rock-critic behavior” (which is like normal music-fan behavior, but substantially more pitiful and indulgent).”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“It is on my short list of why I will one day move to the woods. Nothing is grosser than people after last call.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“Because there is a void in my guts that can only be filled by songs.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“The reason I cried was the sacrifices. There’s been too many. Too many little things that I didn’t know were on the line.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

“If she is ‘made up’—well, she is the one who made herself up.”
― Jessica Hopper, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic