It's Always That One Song That Gets

Being A Pop Fan Is A Lot Like Catholic Devotion - Lots Of Ritual, Lots Of Ceremony... We Touch The Icon To Enter The Sacred Space, Genuflecting To Reliquaries And Ostentatoria That Make Something Splendid Of Our Most Secret Desires And Agonies.

I Had No Voice To Talk With Because She Was My Whole Language.

Like Most Fans Of 'so You Think You Can Dance,' I Wouldn't Know A Pasodoble If It Beat Me With A Rake.

...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.

'the Queen Is Dead' Is Not Merely The Smiths' Best Album, But It Is One Of Those Timeless, Perfect, Inexhaustible Artifacts That Could Only Have Been Made By A Gang Of Sullen, Sun-deprived Rock & Roll Boys Fighting Off Adulthood Tooth And Nail.