“I got into a groove and was like, I can actually draw!”

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

“No one else gets to do this.”

“More mash. Bangers and mash.”

“I think I said something like, ‘I’m gonna go give birth.’ ”

“I was the only person that was staying on to go on the next tour. Everyone else would leave the band.”

“It’s a little bit of a mid-life crisis, or something.”

“I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.”

Non-fiction. Hardcover, 390 pages. By Sean Wilentz

“We joke a lot about headlines like ‘Gloomy Guys Get Gloomier’ or ‘More Miserable.’”

“We Los Angelinos are a stylish bunch.”

“That was rock ‘n’ roll. Like, the real shit.”

“It’s essentially, how far can you take people out without losing them?”