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

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

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

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

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 your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.