Richard Hell

Punk legend and author Richard Hell, interviewed at 3 A.M.

"I like making records, but I left the music business because I'm not really cut out for it. You have to rehearse with a band, deal with record companies. All the elaborate business around making records. You are required to go out on tour in support of them. There's a lot more required of you than writing songs and recording them. Not to mention finding a way to sound a way you can stand when you're not a natural-born singer. As an author, I just sit down and write."

Rock on, Richard. Or write on, as it were.