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

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.