Rob Sheffield

“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends”

— Rob Sheffield

“Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.”

— Rob Sheffield

“I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.”

— Rob Sheffield

Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

— Rob Sheffield

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

— Rob Sheffield

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

— Rob Sheffield

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

— Rob Sheffield

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

— Rob Sheffield

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

— Rob Sheffield

“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

It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was…

— Rob Sheffield

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

— Rob Sheffield

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

— Rob Sheffield

“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.”

— Rob Sheffield

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

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

“Sometimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person’s home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching…

— Rob Sheffield

“Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times all agree: They want to…

— Rob Sheffield

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.…

— Rob Sheffield

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was…

— Rob Sheffield

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

“We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it…

— Rob Sheffield

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

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

“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on…

— Rob Sheffield

“Neither of us ever threw anything away. We made a lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out,…

— Rob Sheffield

“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have…

— Rob Sheffield

“By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get…

— Rob Sheffield

“To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in…

— Rob Sheffield

“Did I learn anything? No way. But all the things you want to learn from grief turn out to be the total…

— Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well…

— Rob Sheffield

“Her universe is such a big place full of so many galaxies-100 billion of them with 100 billion stars apiece which means…

— Rob Sheffield

“Renée and I met at a bar called the Eastern Standard in Charlottesville, Virginia. I had just moved there to study English…

— Rob Sheffield

“What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ages, and in the modern era, they have come…

— Rob Sheffield

“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it…

— Rob Sheffield

“I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty,…

— Rob Sheffield

“Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter…

— Rob Sheffield

“For two weeks, I lay awake at night and said Hail Marys over and over to stop my heart from beating too…

— Rob Sheffield

“I remember the summer of 1996, at a drunken wedding with one of my professors, a Hendrix-freak baby boomer, when he was…

— Rob Sheffield

“I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I…

— Rob Sheffield