Being a husband is scary....We have everything to lose. We have made promises. We have given hostages to fortune and challenged fate to a dance-off. We have chosen a future full of loss....when you ma...
Before I met Maria, I was your basic craven hermit. I spent most of my time in my room, in love with my walls, hiding out from the world with myfanzines and my records. I thought I was happier that wa...
At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks, so I wasn't, like, shocked or anything. But still, it's never not nice to to keep realizing.
Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.
What is love? Great minds have been grappling with thisquestion through the ages, and in the modern era, they havecome up with many different answers. According to the Westernphilosopher Pat Benatar,...
We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it to keep us together. We did a lot of work to meet in the middle. Music brought us togeth...
Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.
They’re never technically tapes, but they’re always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.
They were the daughters of the great Hollywood film noir director John Farrow, a devout Catholic as well as a boozing, brawling, womanizing piece of work. Robert Mitchum (who starred in Farrow’s nasti...
The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.
The other songs they recorded that May were silly ones—All Together Now, Baby You’re a Rich Man, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number). It’s All Too Much might seem silly too, but it rocks, which the...
Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.
Neither of us ever threw anything away. We madea lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out, tapes for dancing, tapes for falling asleep. Tapes for doing the dishes, for walkingthe...
John didn’t score his first Number One hit until 1974, the fourth Beatle to reach this milestone (Ringo beat him twice), but he got over with Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, with a big assist from E...
I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of.
I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, ‘The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.’ My first response was, Yesss! How did he know that? It’s like he’s reading my mind. B...
I hear the noise in his voice, and I hear a boy trying to scare the darkness away. I wish I could hear what happened next, but nothing did.
I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.
Hours, packaged as Bowie’s R&B album, went equally deep. Seven, Survive, and Thursday’s Child felt like Babyface and Toni Braxton doing Young Americans. The major flaw of these records, one that many...
Give Me Love was a hit around the same time as Cat Stevens’s Morning Has Broken, a superficially similar hippie-dad prayer, yet I violently hated Morning Has Broken, just hated it, despised the choked...