“Achin’ to be understood”

“I was afraid of life and everything that goes with it. And to a certain extent I still am. But my fears were much deeper than offending someone in the band. All I can tell you is I feel good now, and I worried back then unnecessarily. There wasn’t anyone in the band who was a real positive thinker or an uplifting guy. We were all kind of defeatists and kind of played with the idea of being the failure as hero. And we all fed off each other. We all escaped individually but not as a group.”

- fra ‘The Rolling Stone Interview: Paul Westerberg’. Rolling Stone. 24. juni, 1993. Læs hele samtalen herunder.