Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder. — Rob Sheffield Burning 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
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
“They’re never technically tapes, but they’re always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“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 Too late Copy Share Image
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. — Rob Sheffield Death Copy Share Image
“Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box!” — Rob Sheffield Funny-and-random 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 Calling Copy Share Image
“It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and… — Rob Sheffield Birthday Copy Share Image
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a… — Rob Sheffield Action 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
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. — Rob Sheffield Catholic Copy Share Image
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and… — Rob Sheffield Break Copy Share Image
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink… — Rob Sheffield Camps Copy Share Image
“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to… — Rob Sheffield Lovers 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
“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 Baby boom 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
I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served… — Rob Sheffield Bells Copy Share Image
Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate… — Rob Sheffield Aerosmith 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
The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field… — Rob Sheffield Anchor Copy Share Image
“Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession… — Rob Sheffield Best friend Copy Share Image
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling… — Rob Sheffield Anatomy 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 Red sox Copy Share Image
