Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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.