I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born and finds the house falling apart and an old man living in it by himself. Lonely place,...
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at...
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.
Just more of that endless, useless knowledge you absorb when you're in a relationship, with no meaning or relevance outside of that relationship. When the relationship's gone, you're stuck knowing all...
If you tell people you’re writing a book about the Beatles, at first they smile and ask, Another one? What’s left to say? So I mention Baby’s in Black, or It’s All Too Much, or Lil Wayne’s version of...
If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.
I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that's for sure. Cruelty isn't that hard to understand. I had no trouble...
I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.
Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box!
Dandelion is easily the best faux-McCartney song of the Sixties.
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked a...
The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.
Tacos will grow on Christmas trees before I learn to carry a tune. Fortunately, it doesn’t matter. In karaoke, talent means nada; enthusiasm is everything. What I lack in talent, I make up for in pass...
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
