Rob Sheffield Quotes

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

'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 camp.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

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

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you.

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

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

The bassist -- always the bassist.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you