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“Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.”

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Christopher Bollen, born on November 26, 1975, is an accomplished American novelist known for his distinctive narrative style and profound insights into modern society. more

“An album for me as a teenager in the '70s was a fully formed concept. It was a body of work from an artist I liked or trusted or who excited me. Maybe one of the songs is really poppy and you listen to it on the radio as a hit single and then more of the world is about to find out about this artist by buying the record.”

World Body Artist Song Records Concepts Radio Albums Excited Teenager Buying Trusted Poppies

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.”

Age Singles

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.”

People Ideas Age Wanted Hurt Generations Heard Internet Band Findings Losing Albums Youtube Music Love Elevators

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.”

Feels Country Dream Moving Culture Century Ready Professors

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.”

Light Stage Amplification

Author:Christopher Bollen

“My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.”

Knows Happens Trouble Fronts Changed Pages Following Arena Promoters Gunfights Wrestlemania

Author:Roddy Piper

“I think that I just wasn't brought up under any rules, and I think that made me a little different and people wanted to look up to that or aspire to that, and that makes me very grateful.”

People Thinking Looks Littles Made Different Wanted Grateful Look Up Aspire

Author:Roddy Piper

“I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.”

Ideas Actors

Author:Woody Harrelson

“The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'”

Feelings Consumed

Author:Jim Carrey

“My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things.”

People Way Kind Has Beens Spiritual Journey Crazy Obsession Obsessed Enjoyable Good Way Spiritual Journey

Author:Jim Carrey

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