“I felt indestructible, or at least undestroyed, more alive than I'd ever been.” — Rob Sheffield Alive Copy Share Image
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. — Rob Sheffield Language Copy Share Image
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. — Rob Sheffield Feeling Copy Share Image
“I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.” — Rob Sheffield Finished Copy Share Image
“Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.” — Rob Sheffield Knights Copy Share Image
“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends” — Rob Sheffield Friends Copy Share Image
“The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there,… — Rob Sheffield Original Copy Share Image
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars… — Rob Sheffield Awards Copy Share Image
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or… — Rob Sheffield Dozen Copy Share Image
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield Band Copy Share Image
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own… — Rob Sheffield Audience Copy Share Image
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. — Rob Sheffield Brave Copy Share Image
“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.” — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
“When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need… — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
“So you get less shy about how hard you have to try. And you don't bother hiding your Kotter tapes. Sure, they… — Rob Sheffield Love Copy Share Image
On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping… — Rob Sheffield Idols Copy Share Image
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance… — Rob Sheffield Boy and girl Copy Share Image
“We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are… — Rob Sheffield Individual Geekdoms Copy Share Image
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
“For all karaoke freaks around the nation, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of… — Rob Sheffield Karaoke Copy Share Image
“You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded… — Rob Sheffield Cynic Copy Share Image
Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon… — Rob Sheffield Able Copy Share Image
“...We recognize that smile when we see it in the mirror, or on the faces of our friends, at weddings, anniversaries, christenings,… — Rob Sheffield Marriage Copy Share Image
Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get… — Rob Sheffield Enough Copy Share Image
“We are kind people in an unkind world, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens. How do you pretend you don't know about it, after… — Rob Sheffield Free man Copy Share Image
“It’s not human to let go of love, even when it’s dead. We expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the… — Rob Sheffield Anniversary Copy Share Image
“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 Astronomy Copy Share Image
“bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of… — Rob Sheffield Absolute monarchy Copy Share Image
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once… — Rob Sheffield Body Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born… — Rob Sheffield Cowboy movie Copy Share Image
“What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ages, and in the modern era, they have come… — Rob Sheffield Elementary school Copy Share Image
“Renée and I met at a bar called the Eastern Standard in Charlottesville, Virginia. I had just moved there to study English… — Rob Sheffield Big star Copy Share Image
“Don't go home with that magic man! I wanted to shake my Walkman, warn the Heart girls to run away. Don't trust… — Rob Sheffield Run away Copy Share Image
“on the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, "well we made it through another month. so do we get… — Rob Sheffield Anniversary Copy Share Image
“ Roller Boogie is a relic from - when else? - the '70s. This is a tape I made for the eight-grade… — Rob Sheffield Cassette Copy Share Image
“Before I met Maria, I was your basic craven hermit. I spent most of my time in my room, in love with… — Rob Sheffield English major Copy Share Image
“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They… — Rob Sheffield Bible Copy Share Image
“I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, ‘The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.’… — Rob Sheffield Opposite direction Copy Share Image
