“But “ma’am” doesn’t translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.” — Rob Sheffield North Copy Share Image
“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield Happy love Copy Share Image
“This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
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?"… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Rod exemplifies the attitude that Losing It is no big deal. He saw that fate coming, and he was already planning to… — Rob Sheffield Aging gracefully Copy Share Image
Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not… — Rob Sheffield Competition Copy Share Image
“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.” — Rob Sheffield Benevolence Copy Share Image
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. — Rob Sheffield Flamboyant Copy Share Image
“And they’re right—what could be scarier, stupider, than staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons… — Rob Sheffield Terrified Copy Share Image
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along… — Rob Sheffield Dream Copy Share Image
In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the… — Rob Sheffield Badminton Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it… — Rob Sheffield Connection Copy Share Image
“Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times all agree: They want to… — Rob Sheffield Love Copy Share Image
“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through… — Rob Sheffield Exile Copy Share Image
“My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and know what… — Rob Sheffield Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. ’Twas bliss… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“That’s why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain’t private.” That was always my most intense fear about getting married:… — Rob Sheffield Getting married Copy Share Image
“She also told me about the night one of her astrophysics friends went to a bar trivia contest where the final question… — Rob Sheffield Friendship Copy Share Image
“i’m very expressive. i deserve to feel pretty. i kissed the blarney stone. i am strong. i am brave. im a good… — Rob Sheffield Children Copy Share Image
“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
“Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out.… — Rob Sheffield Fall in love Copy Share Image
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. — Rob Sheffield Family Copy Share Image
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. — Rob Sheffield Bizarre Copy Share Image
Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.” — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
“I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Song Copy Share Image
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. — Rob Sheffield Approach Copy Share Image
“Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.” — Rob Sheffield Fight Copy Share Image
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people?” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
