“And I think that I sometimes might have wished for something more than to be a size six. But now my inspiration rests in between my beauty magazines and my credit card bills”

– Sleater Kinney “#1 Must Have”

“We’re as close as two coats of paint on a windswept wall. But we’ll never know what sits at the other’s core.”

– The Hope Blister “The Outer Skin”

“And what of your lips? Well, do they miss the way I used to taste? And do your hips … miss my arms thrown around your waist?”

- Tuscadero “Mutiny”

“Once I saw him in the moonlight, when the bats were a flying. I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying. Cryin’ nobody knows, nobody knows. How I loved the man, as I teared off his clothes. Cryin’ nobody knows, nobody knows my pain. When I see that it’s risen; that fool moon again.”

– Cat Power “Werewolf”

“I have this unhappiness to wear around my neck. It’s a pretty piece of jewelry to show what I protect.”

– Eurythmics “Savage”

“Do you think just like that you can divide this? You as yours – me as mine to before we were Us? ... If the rain has to separate from itself … Does it say, Pick out your cloud?”

– Tori Amos “Your Cloud”

“Glass on the pavement under my shoe, without you, is all my life amounts to.”

– Red House Painters “Katy Song”

“I don’t know if I could drive a car fast enough to get to where you are”

– Liz Phair “Shatter”

“Everybody goes leaving those who fall behind.”

– Big Star / This Mortal Coil “Holocaust”

“Just another dead fag to you - that's all. Just another light missing on a long taxi ride.”

– Tori Amos “Taxi Ride”

“So keep this a secret – our lot in life. They are elephants. We are mice”

– Azure Ray “We are Mice”

“All girls cry. Like I said – I don’t know why.”

– Kristen Hersh “Teeth”

“And all over the world, strangers talk only about the weather.”

– Tom Waits / Marianne Faithfull “Strange Weather”