But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
But if you listen to outtakes from the sessions, you can hear the Beatles worked out harmonies for Eight Days a Week—beautiful harmonies, in fact. Yet they cut the harmonies and sang in unison, to mak...
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you? I long to live out this moment in real life.
You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends
When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?
Whatever music you were into, it was exploding in the Nineties. Guitar bands, hip-hop, R&B, techno, country, Britpop, trip-hop, blip-hop, ambient, illbient, jungle, ska, swing, Belgian jam bands, Wels...
Was this a total joke, or only a half joke? Was he suggesting that being a boy and being in drag were the same thing? Was he making fun of boys or coaxing me to see humor in the fact that I had to be...
The real high point of his film career is The Hunger,
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.
The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers are alwaystwanging about that number on the jukebox they can’t st...
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversib...
Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.
Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave...
Planet Earth is blue. Blue blue electric blue, that's the color of my room. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues. I never did anything out of the blue. Now my Blue Jean's blue. See these eyes so...
One of the things I love about the Stones is that whenever they aimed for Beatle-style warmth—as in The Singer Not the Song or Wild Horses—they still sounded fabulously surly. That’s what made them th...
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I n...
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
I’d have too much John (Oh Yoko!, I’m Steppin’ Out, Oh My Love, New York City, Nobody Told Me) and too much Paul (Jet, Friends to Go, Flaming Pie, Too Many People, We Got Married, Simple as That, Hi,...
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.