Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you,...
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.
I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I would not rather be. I’ve always wanted to see New Zealand, but I’d rather be here. The ma...
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
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...
Put the freak in frequently drunk and belligerent.
You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know wha...
This is what they call hitting rock bottom, and they call it that because it rocks.
I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on my next favorite song. But I never stop playing my mixes. Every fan makes them. The tim...
I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
Despite all the solo vocals, each using the others as a back-up group, the White Album still sounds haunted by memories of friendship—that dreamlike state they could still zoom into hearing each other...
CARY GRANT IS THE MCCARTNEY OF MOVIE STARS—HIS STORY has much to tell us about Paul’s. They share a spiritual connection, beyond their pronunciation of Judy. (Paul described his hey Judy-Judy-Judy ad...
But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys always want to be taken seriously, and they always want to tr...
But things started to wobble around the time R.E.M. put out a truly wretched album called Document, the one that made her reconsider whether she could continue to worship Michael Stipe. I blamed R.E.M...
As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Will always ride hard for Mick’s Paul phase, summed up by the compilation Through the Past, Darkly, with its awesomely ridiculous octagonal cover.