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It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then...more

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If I could have all of those things, I wouldn't mind if I touched her or not.

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It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get ...more

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And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get ...more

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He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

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There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and...more

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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add u...more

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he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in hi...more

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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to g...more

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Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' by the Smiths; 'Call Me' by A...more

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What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those ...more

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A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You ...more