quotes
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts" - Bertrand Russel
"you learn humility. you study the earth and you think you understand it, and then you say, ok, i've got all these principals, i'm gonna apply them to another planet, lets go out there. you're always surprised. its always not what you expected. and that really teaches you how little you know, and how much there is to know" - Andy Ingerson (planetary scientist)
"so many great lines. so many great songs." - Kim
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." Voltaire
"Do you suppose that once one becomes a "Rockstar"(whatever that is) one becomes an entirely different person than the person one was before? what a silly thought. once a dork, always a dork. i'm living proof. ask anyone who knows me. people's lives change, but that doesn't mean people change." - Adam Duritz (counting crows)
"i like my dreads, and that is why i have them. i look in the mirror and my silly hair makes me smile. that's good enough reason for me." - Adam Duritz
"i like my dreads because they do make me feel cool. i like feeling cool, it was a nice change for me". - Adam Duritz
"i'll probably never get that chance again and i'm glad i didn't miss it. see what you can before it disappears. go camping. go to a museum. visit the zoo. kiss a girl. do whatever. join a rock and roll band. and then don't forget. try not to ever forget". - Adam Duritz
"line as many small good things as you can in as long a row as you can make it and maybe eventually circumstance becomes habit and one day is suddenly and miraculously a little better than the day before it". - Adam Duritz
"I never listened to guitar playing in any band, ever, I still don't, really. Worshiping guitarists is all buying guitar magazines. Anybody can play guitar, but writing songs is a far harder challenge. I'd rather idolize someone like Elvis Costello than I would Steve Vai." - Jonny Greenwood (radiohead guitarist))
"My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this." - Jonny Greenwood
"Like the rest of the band, Thom sort of doesn't have any friends, really--which is a bit weird. We got back to Oxford after touring...and it was really sad. We all got home, and I phoned up one or two people that we knew, who were away, and then we ended up sort of phoning each other up again." - Jonny Greenwood
"notebooks. it means building up ammunition. most of the time you are waiting. most of the time you dont know when something is good even when your doing it. its only when you pick it up later than you understand it. lack of confidence is the main problem for me. this is my only way to get round it. that and the others and their reactions. i suppose i am talking about words here." - Jonny Greenwood
"It should be done in private, like masturbation, really, shouldn't it? It really shouldn't be done in public. They're the only two industries that jerk off in public." - Colin Greenwood about how the film and music industries are the only areas that congratulate themselves in public
"I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol." - Colin Greenwood
"Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother." - Colin Greenwood
"I think thinking is a good thing but there are times when you say fuck it. We're allowed to make mistakes." - Ed O'Brian
"With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about." - Ed O'Brian
"I don't think we're individually amazing musicians, but what we do collectively is pretty good." - Ed O'Brian
"We've discovered an interesting parallel relationship: The less time you spend on the road, the more sane you are. So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out. What we're going to do is a month here and there, rather than the huge rock & roll circus that we did for OK Computer." - Ed O'Brian
"The most essential thing in life is to establish a heartfelt communication with others" - Thom Yorke
"evrybody has an opinion. raw? ha! i think its better disney style. bluebirds on my shoulder. fireworks and fairies." - one of the members of radiohead when asked about the two different versions of motion picture soundtrack
"It was the same with OK Computer and the Bends...you have to trust your former 6-month-ago self that liked and was excited about it as a new thing." - jonny greenwood
"Well, I'd always resisted meditation with a full-on defense mechanism, but I'd never understood why. I wouldn't meditate - no way, ever - and Thom felt the same way. He got angry just talking about it. We ended up laughing about the whole thing, but we figured that singing is a form of meditation, where you kind of go to an imaginary place that you've built over many years. It's like a state of trance. So to go to a meditation class where somebody tells you, "Do this, feel this," like they've got an instruction manual on how to get to this place - it's offensive. It's like reading a sex guide before you are with the one you love, and then asking whether they wouldn't mind moving their thigh, like, twenty centimeters to the left - and then measuring it with a stick." - bjork
"This album was kind of the kind of the first time we've gone 'OK, lets write an album'. And you just realisse it doesnt work that way because you cant sit down and write songs and you cant make songs appear. They come to you when they feel like it and i've been up since four o'clock this morning because you just wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and go 'oh, there's a song coming'. They choose you, you dont choose them. It is completely bizzare, but as much as i sit down with the guitar and think 'oh, it would be nice to write a song', it never works that way. It always happens when you're not looking, basically". - Paul Dempsey
"if i get writers block and dont write songs for a couple of months, i just get really down and just feel like 'what am i doing?'. I'm just walking threw the day praying another song will come along and make me worthwhile again". - Paul Dempsey
"I believe that at times one has to suffer through hardships to fully appreciate the gifts of life" - Scott Weiland (stone temple pilots)
"It's a Bitter Sweet Symphony this life. Try to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die." - Richard Ashcroft (the verve)
"I've never prayed but tonight I'm on my knees yeah. I need to hear some sounds that reconise the pain in me yeah. I let the melody shine let it cleans my mind I feel free now. But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singing to me now." - Richard Ashcroft
"So much stays unknown till the time you are strong. Did you imagine you could ever feel so strong? And all your pain just turns into reilef. All your doubt becomes your own belief". - Beth Orton
"Well you might as well smile, you might as well smile ~ coz tomorrow you just don't know". - Beth Orton
"all i can say is that my life is pretty plane i like watching the puddles gather rain. all i can do is just pour some tea for two and speak my point of view but its not sane. i just want someone to say to me i'll always be there when you wake, you know i'd like to keep my cheeks dry today, so stay with me and i'll have it made. and i dont understand why i sleep all day and i start to complain there's no rain. and all i can do is read a book to stay awake and it rips my life away but its a great escape" - Shannon Hoon [blind melon]
"I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something." - Billy Corgan (smashing pumpkins)
"I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because it was true. I put aside fear of Father being angry with me. It's hard though; the world pales in comparison with the stature of a parent. In some small-consolation way, my parents feel I'm helping people by giving them something to identify with. They feel proud in a sort of reverse way. My mom's proud of the fact that lots of kids look up to me." - Billy Corgan
"Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.' " - Billy Corgan
"I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over." - Billy Corgan
"She was my wife, She was my angel. I put her in a box underneath my bed. There's a difference between her but there wasn't. And this woman broke my heart in 2 and 4 and 6 and 8 and 16 and 64. And i said baby, why must you make me cry. Why must the girls always make the boys cry. And it was blashpemy, it was disastrous and, Unsettled and it broke the pause... And the disasters unseen. This was no ordinary girl you see, Why? Baby, my baby. Well, she's master of the clowns, Motherfucking nothing, I just wanna fucking be friends. Fuck it all, She was a fucking whore!!! Ssssss...." - Billy Corgan (end to silverfuck sung live '97)
"The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves." - Billy Corgan
"We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band." - Billy Corgan
"You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise." - Billy Corgan
"We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation." - Billy Corgan
"I don't even want to discuss how many people told me that making an album with 28 songs at this point in our career was crazy. Everyone, including the people at our record label, wanted us to just take a nice, safe path, and produce another album like Siamese Dreams. My attitude was just the opposite. Thankfully, it hasn't turned out too badly." - Billy Corgan
"There's a lot of chemistry in the band that the outside world could never witness. In our band, D'Arcy is the moral conscience-it's really hard to do something if D'Arcy thinks its fucked." - Billy Corgan
"This friend of mine asked me 'Do you really mean it when you sing "God is empty just like me"?', and 363 days out of the year, the answer is no. But those two days I feel it, I feel it pretty intensely." - Billy Corgan
"I was a jock, but I wasn't on the sports team. I played guitar, but I didn't hang out with the stoners. I just couldn't hang in any way, and when you're young and you can't hang, you oppose. So I was anti-everything, fuck you all." - Billy Corgan
"As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality." - Billy Corgan
"Music has basically
followed a shallow route for 50 years. People come along, do
something really cool and different, everyone copies them, the
original gets diluted, distorted, and eventually the diluted - in
most cases achieves more success than the thing that started it.
And I kinda thought the alternative scene was gonna be different:
We thought `Brave new world!'
So it's really wierd to be competing against the imitators. It
wasn't always comfortable competing against Nirvana, and it was
certainly not healthy living under that shadow at times. But at
least there was honor in it. We always respected that it was a
great band - Pearl Jam too. But competing against Bush?! It's
nothing to get your dick hard about, you know what i mean?
There's no mojo in that!" - Billy Corgan
"I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine." - Billy Corgan
"I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character." - Billy Corgan
"The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets." - Billy Corgan
"The simplest way that I can understand therapy, is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it." - Billy Corgan
"I've become the guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic." - Billy Corgan
"When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before." - Billy Corgan
"On an idealistic level, doing a double conceptual album is totally uncool, but I'm gonna pull it off." - Billy Corgan
"What do you mean we sound like something from the 60's? Music is timeless, it doesnt work by numbers. How can you use '60s' to describe a piece of music". - Bobby Gillespie (primal scream)
"I need TP for my bunghole". - Beavis
"Damit Beavis pull your pants up". - Butt-head
"screaming rules" - butt-head
"You've got the music in you! Don't let go, You've got the music in you, One dance left, This world is gonna pull through, Don't give up, You've got a reason to live, Can't forget, We only get what we give" - Gregg Alexander (new radicals)
"Frienemies.......Who when you're down ain't your friend". - Gregg Alexander
"One day the world will be ready for you, and wonder how they didn't see". - E (eels)
"sometimes my mind dont shake and shift, but most of the time it does" - Fiona Apple
"and i'll be your girl if you say its a gift and you give me some more of your drugs" - Fiona Apple
"Do, or do not. There is no try". - Yoda
"It's funny, no-one wants it to rain, but it's such an inportant part of the world. It norishes the earth, but we just end up scurrying between trees and buildings. Those trees are reaching up to the sky yearning for for nourishment. We just think it a nuisance, something we 'have to live with'. It shows you how much we think we own the earth." - Froggie Simian
"you may have thought i was a schitzofrenic cross-dresser who really didnt know about my own sexuality. It could be funny. It could also be right, you would also never know. I will. he he he. that's a cool thing. I will always know things about myself and you wil never know them." - froggie simian
"I love life, but there is so much $#!+ to deal with". - Thom Yorke (radiohead)
"We hope your rules and wisdom choke you". - Thom Yorke
"I saw the Zeffirelli version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn't understand why the morning after they shagged they didn't just run away. The song is written for two people who should run away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal song". Thom Yorke about Exit Song (for a film) and William Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet
"I wish you were inside of me, I hope that you're ok". - Adam Duritz (counting crows)
"I'm sorry i know it's only rock and roll". - Paul Dempsey (something for kate)
"Believe everything you read and in twenty years we'll put you behind glass for all the people to come see ~ yeah they'll be rolling in the aisles". - Paul Dempsey
"Before you jump you better think twice, no angel's gonna appear to offer you advice". Paul Dempsey
"Big screen television ~ say no more ~ switch it on and i'll see you in hell. We got the good seats ~ just look at the smiles on our faces right now, right now ~ we are the luckiest people in the whole wide world". Paul Dempsey
"I wanna lay right next to you and sleep. But are you dreaming?" - Paul Dempsey
"But you can't look at both sides of the coin at the same time, and you can't make up your mind". - Paul Dempsey
"You've never met ~ someone you've never met ~ it's okay, it happened to someone you've never met ~ so you can stay, you can remain......fearless". - Paul Dempsey
"Take a photograph ~ to remind you ~ of the things you know you will one day forget". - Paul Dempsey
"They bow their heads to pray for friday night to save their lives, and then, they go on through life armed with a scale from one to ten." - Paul Dempsey
"I read my future in a magazine, it lied to me". - Paul Dempsey
"Better a small hurt now than a big hurt later". - my own rendition of a Peter Goldsworthy quote (he had waisted life instead of big hurt later)
"Don't worry, I don't have low self-esteem. It's a mistake. I have low esteem for everyone else". - Daria
"I dont believe in deadlines, Daria. They styfle creativity". - Trent, from Daria
"I'm always late.....That's why I dont wear watches......They depress me". Trent, from Daria
"Being free, is a state of mind". - Lenny Kravitz
"A true friend stabs you in the front". - Oscar Wilde
"You can't proceed without a struggle". - I heard this on some movie, but I don't remember what it's called.
"The candle that shines twice as bright burns half as long". - old sorta well known one. i think it's off blade runner.
"I think if normal means being like most people I intend to stay a freak for the rest of my life". - Carolyn Marshall
"As I said before...I will not repeat myself". - Shreya Shetty
"What I say next is the truth...what I said before was a lie". - My cousin Mark was the first one to tell me that, but I think its really really old.
"Now I can relate to him more coz he's like on the same level.....ya know....smokes weed.....messes wifv chics.......he's like my uncle or sumfin". - Jay Z on Bill Clinton
"Maybe it's just a bunch of stuff that happend". - Bart Simpson
"There are people who play in bands, and then there are musicians". - Kwame M. Anderson
"As industry becomes more important than music, the artistic drive is replaced with marketing savvy and strategically designed hit songs. Radio might as well give the record contracts to the advertisers". - Kwame M. Anderson
"And when somebody knows you well, well there's no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there's no drug like that". - Heather Nova
"You get on stage every night, you play your balls off. It's part of the job, it's like a huge big train pushing a tiny little song up a hill... sometimes it's down hill, and once it gets momentum you can stop pushing that particular song and move on to another one, and start all over again. It's cool man". - Fran Healy (travis)
"I write loads of songs, and 99 per cent of the time, its a lot o'shite. And then, for all this shit you do, you get a bonus." - Fran Healy
"I got told ages ago, in writing, never tell lies, and you'll be fine, and you'll never get bored of it, and it's true, i've never ever got bored of any of the songs... there's maybe one or two, but they're the ones that you go, 'mmm, they weren't really good songs'." - Fran Healy
"They come with arms and legs and head and ears... like little people. It's really weird, songs start off life in a bedroom, sweat pouring off your brow, you come ten minutes later and it's released nine months later". - Fran Healy (travis)
"Well, I dont read books, i dont listen to music, so i was always just kinda diddlin' about not really knowing what i was doing. I think whatever gives you songs, there's a big eye in the sky and it's looking around, and it sees millions of these people sitting at the edge of their beds, staring into the same hole in their moods, and like writin' and writin' and writin' and writin', and then i think you get to a point where it goes, 'right, they've gone threw enough hell', and they just sort of like - pooh! - do that, - poowh! - and then a song appears, and if the person realises what they've actually been given, and treats it with the respect it deserves, then it will respect them and continue to supply the material of the songs". - Fran Healy (travis)
"I dont give a fuck, I'm just glad when i hear a good song. I dont care who sings it, I dont care who wrote it, because i know where it came from". - Fran Healy
"We dont really pay much attention to charts, its more radio airplay, that's more an indicator of how many people get to hear your songs". - Andy (from travis)
"Well this is it - the music business, when it first started, it made music. Now it just makes money. You've got an A&R department the size of your bedroom, and you've got lawyers on five floors and accountants on three floors, and that's what the music industry makes. In the same way commercial radio stations are not about music anymore, they're just about making money and figures and advertising space, etcetera, and so anything that's fucking half decent, anything that's any fucking good will find it difficult to get through, because it does not sound like what they're used to playing on the radio. So we're in this bear with its paw in the honey jar scenario - it's got its paw in the honey or the money, and it refuses to let go of it, and it's never gonna get its paw out of the honey pot, and that's what record companies are like these days, they've got their grip tightly on the cash, and they dont want to let go of it because they're afraid of losing all this cash, and that's gonna be their downfall." - Fran Healy
"I'm not mixed up in any money any day, because i just think, for fuck's sake man, i haven't seen any money. I mean, i rent a place now, I'm not exactly fucking starving anymore, but i was poor for like 26 years. I've only just started making money, I know poor more than i know well off, you know what i mean?". - Fran Healy
"I don't know any white kids. And I don't know any black kids. I just know kids". - Ben Harper when asked if his music is understood by white kids the same way as black kids.
"Just because something's a law doesnt mean it's right". - an old lady from a show about Jet Jackson
"...making music was and still is of he most, you know - besides maybe a relationship or something - important parts of your life. It is what makes you whole, to me anyway. Just the act of playing whether it's recording it or putting it out or anything, it's the act of playing. I'm happy that we still play and are still the same four or five guys. I'm glad that we didn't get sacrificed or anythings. No-one died". - Eddie Vedder (pearl jam)
"...kinda went in not expecting anything and came out pretty happy with it". - Eddie Vedder
"It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings." - Neil Young
"Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself." - Eddie Vedder
"It was like eighties metal. Something like Cherry Pie. I was inspired by that. I was inspired to play something better than that." - Eddie Vedder
"The majority of how we record material comes from something, a way of dealing with something, sort of a healing process. Recording for us is like documenting where the band is at the time". - Warren Ellis (dirty three)
"In music it's one of those unique things where people get together and express themselves through one medium". - Warren Ellis
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening That is translated through you into action, And because there is only one of you in all time, This expression is unique. If you block it, It will never exist through any other medium And be lost. The world will never have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, Nor how valuable it is, Nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, To keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware Directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, A blessed unrest that keeps us marching And makes us more alive than others". - Martha Graham
"The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. But the album was, for me, a great workout of the mind. It pushed me. I realized that I had to live every second, not shut myself off from anything. Deliberately, I didn't read any reviews when Tidal came out. I didn't want to gauge myself by anything I was hearing or reading. I didn't want to get stuck in mirrors - I wanted to carry on". - Fiona Apple
"Mainly I write to clarify my thoughts and feelings, and when I sing, I just concentrate on getting my point across. I just want to make a statement and make it right". - Fiona Apple
"I'd give anything to take back last night -- I'd give anything not to have let everyone down, and I'd give anything for the peace of mind to deal with my ego now. That's really the part I hate. How did this become about my ego? Was my head in the wrong place, wanting to impress people, and prove myself to them? If I weren't thinking that way, would I have been able to keep it together? That's something I hate to think about. But I guess that just means I'm only human". - Fiona Apple
"Pretty soon it'll be next week, and then it will be next month, and then there will something new to worry about, and many new things to not worry about". - Fiona Apple
""The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth." - Fiona Apple
"It starts off with self love, and self respect, and honesty. I think if you have that you have everything". - Madonna
"The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature." - Buckminster.
"True love is when you take the passion, romance, and feeling out of a relationship, and find you still care about the person". - (a quote Kim gave me but I have no idea who said it first)
"A room full of dust and a broom to sweep up all the trouble you and I have seen". - E (eels).
"It's a motherfucker, being here without you". - E
"you dont bag your friends just because they get in your way. thats not how it works with friends" - stoney from encino man
"Weird things are happening in this world,...I guess, but it's just what we consider weird, cause we don't know to much." - Babsi
"you know the most intelligent people get side tracked easily." - Annie
"Life is like needing to go to the toilet in the middle of the night- you really dont want to get up and do it, but you feel much better when you have." - Katie Forbes
"I have no idea on what the hell I'm supposed to do". - Katie Forbes
"I'm truely grateful for every bitch in the world". - Katie Forbes
"Never tell your parents how much you love them because they'll think you're on drugs". - Katie Forbes
"Anyway sorry about crapping on so much. No actually, I'm not. And I shouldn't be". - Katie Forbes
"I don't like wankas who drive up and down the main street with oonsa oonsa oonsa music full bore on their stereos." - Katie Forbes
"I'm obviously tired - I'm getting emotional". - Katie Forbes
"Am now too tired to avoid being stupid". - Adam Duritz
"Well I'm an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame". - Adam Duritz
"If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame." - Adam Duritz
"Thought i might get a rocket ride, when i was a child, but it was a lie, That i told myself when i needed something good. At seventeen had a better dream, now i'm thirty-three, and it isnt me, But i'd think of something better if i could." - Adam Duritz
"Caught some grief from a fallen leaf, as she tumbled down to the dirty ground, said i should have put her back there if i could. But everyone needs a better day, and i'm trying to find me a better way, to get from the things i do to the things i should." - Adam Duritz
"Can you see her waiting there for someone like me?" - Adam Duritz
"There's a piece of Maria in every song that i sing. And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings." - Adam Duritz
"For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change." - Adam Duritz
"Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind, Possessing and caressing me". - Beatles
"Jai Guru De Va Om, Nothing's gonna change my world". - Beatles
"Sometimes I'm like, "Oh shit......I'm reffing"". - a reff mate Rob Selick, when we were talking about how thrilling reffing basketball games are...........and i thought i was the only one who dosed off.
things get interesting when people start blabing.
"Our lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping and collision. When Washington said he could not tell a lie, his father must have answered, "You had better learn"". - Germaine Greer
"This, this is our new song, just like the last one, a total waist of time my iron lung". - Thom Yorke
"No. I'm with you. I don't write for ages, then I have a few weeks where I write 20 songs and I'm sorting that out for months, I have no control over my creative processes I only know that it only comes late at night and if I start I shouldn't stop." - Chris Tyler (we were talking about songwriting if you couldnt tell).
"Sometimes I get the feeling, that I wont be on this planet for very long. I really like it here, I'm quite attached to it, I hope I'm wrong. All I really wanna say, is you're the reason I wanna stay. I loved you before I met you, and I met you just in time coz there was nothing left. I sat here on my suitcase, in our empty new apartment, until the sun went down. Then I walked back down the stairs with all my bags and drove away, you must be freaking out. All I know is I've gotta be, where my heart says I've gotta be. It often makes no sense in fact I never understand these things I feel. Don't change your plans for me. I won't move to LA. The leaves are falling back east, that's where I'm gonna stay. You have made me smile again in fact I might be sore from it, it's been a while. I know we've been together many times before, I'll see you on the otherside.......I love you goodbye". - Ben Folds from Ben Folds Five with the sweetest 'lil song Dont Change Your Plans
"I don't believe in god so I can't be saved". - Ben Folds
"I thought about the army. I dropped out and joined a band instead". - Ben Folds
"God please spare me more rejection." - Ben Folds
"My peers they criticize me and my ex-wives all despise me, try to put it all behind me but my redneck past is nipping at my heels". - Ben Folds
"I've been thinking a lot today...........I thought about, the army". - Ben Folds
"I get so nervous I'm shaking, gets so I got no pride at all. Gets so bad but it just keeps coming back for more, I guess I just get off on that stuff. I'm thinking 'bout taking some time. I'm thinking 'bout leaving soon. I got some things I can't tell anyone, I got some things I just can't say. They're the kind of things no-one knows about. I just need somebody to talk to me. I'm thinking 'bout leaving tomorrow. I'm thinking 'bout being on my own. I think I've been waisting my time. I'm thinking 'bout, getting out. In all this time the bottom line's you don't know how much I feel. You say you see but I don't agree.....You don't know how I feel. I'm just trying to get myself some gravity, you're just trying to get me to stay. Sometimes I sit here looking down upon Los Angeles, sometimes I'm floating away. I'm thinking 'bout breaking myself. I'm thinking 'bout getting back home. I think I've been waiting for way too long. I'm thinking 'bout, getting out". - Adam Duritz of Counting Crows with thhe song Speedway, this is how I so often feel.
"When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor, and he orders another, well I wonder what he did that for. That's when I know that I have to get out coz I have been there before. So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door". - Adam Duritz
"If I could make it rain today, and wash away this sunny day down to the gutter, I would, just to get a change of pace". - Adam Duritz
"Things are getting worse but I feel a lot better, and that's all that really matters to me". - Adam Duritz
"There has to be a change I'm sure. Today was just a day fading into another, and that can't be what life is for". - Adam Duritz
"All my friends and lovers leave me behind, to try to have a little fun". - Adam Duritz
"I wanna be Bob Dylan". - Adam Duritz
"And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones". - Bob Dylan
"Mr. Jones and me......we're gonna be big big stars". - Adam Duritz
"sometimes the silence can sound like thunder" - bob dylan
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows". - Bob Dylan
"Don't follow leaders, watch for parking meters". - Bob Dylan
"I can't even remember what I came here to get away from". - Bob Dylan
"It's not dark yet, but it's getting there". - Bob Dylan
"They'll stone you when you're trying to make a buck". - Bob Dylan
"Everybody must get stoned". - Bob Dylan
"I don't wanna work on maggie's farm no more". - Bob Dylan
"You walk into the room, with your pencil in your hand, you see somebody naked and say, who is that man". - Bob Dylan
"All is full of love". - Bjork
"if it wasn't for music I think I'd shrivel up and die." - Katrina
"It's real early morning, no-one is awake, I'm back at my cliff still throwing things off. I listen to the sounds they make on their way down, I follow with my eyes 'til they crash. I imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks, and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open?". - Bjork
"I dunno where we're going but we're gone, where we end up I dunno but thats ok. All I know is that we're going together, and the world will just have to wait. I dunno where we're going but we're gone, when I'm with you things is always fine. I don't feel so out of place with you, coz ya clock's in sync with mine". - Speech
"See the people walking down the street, people are the best part of nature to me". - Speech
"as athletes we are selfish people" - Susie O'Neil
"By the way this girl is sexy and she wouldn't touch you, that may not be true but I said it so you'd feel involved with the song". - Gregg Alexander
"Two months of fun, two years of pain". - Gregg Alexander
"She wanted to be a nun until that fateful day we met". - Gregg Alexander
"I don't even love you, we weren't even friends, it's just that I can't take it alone". - Gregg Alexander
"I need to scream, but I'm too ashamed". - Gregg Alexander
"Music is the most immediate medium mankind has. We need to use it for something useful instead of just making money for the man........Ready for a run-on sentence? making closed minds, sexism, corporate greed, economic and educational separtion of the races, homophobia, and fat people phobia of the past". - Gregg Alexander
"WAKE UP BENIGN CREATURES! Businessmen too, a selfish ego and money driven life without a pro-human agenda is a pathetic thing. The innocent trusting eyes of future generation are watching, don't let us down corporate ass kiss phonies". - Gregg Alexander
"I sucked a lot of cock to get where I am". - Quan Yeomans (regurgitator)
"I don't go to parties baby, coz people tend to freak me out. Watch their lips to work it out, I can hear the words but I still don't know what it's all about. You won't see me down at the disco mama, coz bright lights really hurt my eyes. I'd rather stay and dance with you to the funky music playing on our stereo.o..o..0.O...OOOh, things don't get no better, better than you and me. OOOh, things don't get no better, better than you and me. I don't go to concerts baby, the music's always up to loud. Cigarettes and alcohol get up my arse I always lose you in the crowd. You won't see me tribal raving baby, coz I won't ever look that good. I'd rather dance in ugly pants in the comfort of a lounge room in suburbia.o..o..0.O...OOOh, things don't get no better, better than you and me (thank you mister DJ)". - Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator with ! (the song formally known as)
"I'm a brat! And I know everything, and I talk back! and I'm not listerning to anything you say". - Chris Cheany (the living end)
"I'm not sick, but I'm not well". - Harvey Danger
"I'd rather be dead than cool". - Kurt Cobain (nirvana)
"It's hard to believe that there's no-body out there, its hard to believe, that I'm all alone". - Anthony Kiedis (red hot chili peppers)
"Living in hell like it's some kind of heaven". - Beth Orton
"Perhaps there can be no perfection. Only levels of imperfection. Only differences. Each time we move closer and closer, but never can be satisfied. A piece is never complete, only at some stage abondoned". - Peter Goldsworthy
"Keep in mind we're under the same skies". - Billie Myers
"So many places you prefer to be". - Bernard Fanning (powderfinger)
"When this feeling fades, it'll all seem like a waste". - Bernard Fanning
"Whatever you say". - Bernard Fanning
"Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?". - Fran Healy (travis)
"The radio is playing all the usual. What's a wonderwall anyway". - Fran Healy (travis)
"There is no design for life, there's no devils haircut in my mind, there is not a wonderwall to climb or step around". - Fran Healy (travis)
"They never called you......never ever bloody ever called". - Fran Healy (travis)
"Space is the place". - blur
"I can not save you.....I can't even save myself". - Chris Hall (stabbing westward)
"I try to save myself but myself keeps slipping away". - Trent Reznor (nine inch nails)
"Keep on rockin' in the free world". - Neil Young
"I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black". - Kurt Cobain
"The best music is neither beautiful or ugly". - Peter Goldsworthy
"On the treadmill you'll be running forever". - Beck
"It's a perfect day to lock yourself inside". - Beck
"I might just stay inside today". - Adam Duritz (counting crows)
"I don't go out much these days. Yeah and sometimes I stay inside all day". - Adam Duritz
"Leave my sister alone, coz she don't deserve this. She is a flower, and I am a flower, and we are all alone". - Adam Duritz
"Gotta get out on my own. Gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home. Gotta get out of this sunlight, it's melting my bones. Gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home". - Adam Duritz
"All my friends got flowers in their eyes, but I got none this season". - Adam Duritz
"I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me". - Adam Duritz
""I'm going down to Hollywood, they're gonna make a movie about the things that they find crawling around my brain". - Adam Duritz
"One way or another I'm just hoping to find a way to put my feet out in the world". - Adam Duritz
"Things are getting worse but i feel a lot better, and that's all that really matters to me". - Adam Duritz
"I am colorblind. Coffee black and egg white". - Adam Duritz
"I was waisted in the afternoon, waiting on a train. I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth, had disappeared again". - Adam Duritz
"I hope that everybody, can find a little flame. Me, I say my prayers, then I just light myself of fire and walk out on the wire once again". - Adam Duritz
"I wanna be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep...." - Adam Duritz
"Daylight fading come and waist another year". - Adam Duritz
"Well I will not be an enermy of anything I'll only stand here.....waiting for you". - Adam Duritz
"A long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last". - Adam Duritz
"I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving, now the days go by so fast". - Adam Duritz
"Caught some grief from a fallen leaf, now she's tumbled down to the dirty ground, and I would put her back there if I could". - Adam Duritz
"1-2-3-4-5-6-7 a.m. all alone again, but I've been threw all this shit before. Spend my night in self-defense, crying 'bout my innocence, but I ain't all that innocent anymore". - Adam Duritz
"If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn't they call you first?". - I think its one of those things that is said a million times.....but i like it. Shreya said it to me once.
"Nobody can coach desire". - from the movie Prefontaine
"It's hard to snag a dragon in his own backyard". - Prefontaine
"Some guys win races, other guys watch and pass it on". - Prefontaine
"bullshit, its always better to undress things" - from the movie The Sugar Factory after someone said its sometimes better not to undress things.
"She said I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act". - Ben Harper
"Funny things you learn from your mama, like the way to throw your head back when your swallowing pills. Funny things you learn from your papa, like when you're talking you just can't keep your hands still". - Ben Harper
"But that was now and this is then, It never lasts for long. How I miss the good old days, but I'm so glad they're gone". - Ben Harper
"Quote the raven, yum yum yum". - Patti Smith
"My My, Hey Hey, Rockin' Roll is here to stay. It's better to burn out, than to fade away. My My, Hey Hey". - Neil Young
"And once you're gone, you cant ever go back. When you're out of the blue and into the black". - Neil Young
"The king is gone but he's not forgotten, this is the story of a Johnny Rotten". - Neil Young
"Hey Hey, My My, Rockin' Roll can never die. There's more to the picture, than meets the eye, Hey Hey, My My". - Neil Young
"In true art, the end is always the beginning". - the southern chic off Road Rules 1.
"Got a reason to get up this morning, got inspired by the fear of being last". - Motorace
"Have you ever found yourself lying in bed tossing and turning restlessly, your mind locked in an eternal battle with a question which seems to have no answer? This question may be "Is my bed supposed to be wet?" or "Are Bert and Ernie really just friends?" or "Are weezer going on tour any time soon?" - found on "Oh Weezer" site.<
"I've got electric guitars, I play my stupid songs, I write these stupid words........and I love everyone, waiting there for me yes I do". - Rivers Cuomo (weezer)
"In the garage, I feel safe, no-one cares about my ways. In the garage where I belong, no-one hears me sing this song". - Rivers Cuomo
"The sea is foaming like a bottle of beer, the wave is coming but I aint got no fear". - Rivers Cuomo
"You take your car to work, I take my board. And when you're out of fuel, I'm still afloat". - Rivers Cuomo
"I'm done she's a lesbian, I thought I had found the one. We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind's no good". - Rivers Cuomo
"Lets go away for a while, you and I, to a strange and distant land where they speak no word of truth, but we don't understand anyway". - Rivers Cuomo
"I don't care what they say about us anyway, I don't care about that". - Rivers Cuomo
"I know I should get next to you, you've got a look that made me think you're cool. But it's just sexual attraction, it's nothing real so I'd better keep whackin". - Rivers Cuomo
"Why bother, it's gonna hurt me, its gonna kill when you desert me. This happend to me twice before, it wont happen to me anymore". - Rivers Cuomo
"The world has turned and left me here, just where I was before you appeared". - Rivers Cuomo
"When I look in the mirror, I can't believe what I see. Tell me who's that funky dude, starin' back at me". - Rivers Cuomo
"I asked her to go to the green day concert, you said you'd never heard of them. How cool is that? so I went to your room and read your diary". - Rivers Cuomo
"How stupid is it, I can't talk about it, I gotta sing about it, and make a record of my heart". - Rivers Cuomo
"How stupid is it for all I know you want me too, or maybe you just don't know what to do, maybe you're scared to say, I'm falling for you". - Rivers Cuomo
"I wish I could get my head outta the sand, 'cause I think we'd make a good team, and you would keep my fingernails clean.........But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize 'cause I can't even look in your eyes without shakin', and I ain't fakin', I'll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon". - Rivers Cuomo
"I like to hear crazy rumors. Didn't I die in a car accident? My mom called me about that one -- she was really concerned. And then there was the time I raped someone. My mom also called me about that: 'I'm so disappointed in you!' But she doesn't call me about them anymore. I banned her from the Internet." - Rivers Cuomo
"You can't avoid her, she's in the air. In between molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide". - Rivers Cuomo
"You walk up too her, ask her to dance, she says hey baby I might just take the chance. You say it's a good thing, that you float in the air (in the air). That way there's no way I will crush your pretty toe-nails into a thousand pieces". - Rivers Cuomo
"Only in dreams, we see what it means. Reach out our hands, hold on to hers. But when we wake, it's all been erased. And so it seems.....Only in dreams". - Rivers Cuomo
"I'm sorry for what I did, I did what my body told me to I didn't mean to do you harm. Everytime I pin down what I think I want it slips away, the goal slips away". - Rivers Cuomo
"I guess you're as real as me, maybe I can live with that. Maybe I need fantasy, life of chasing butterfly". - Rivers Cuomo
"I wanna go back, I wanna go back, and I don't even know how I got off the track". - Rivers Cuomo
"I hope I like the life I find when I leave everything behind". - Kevin Mitchell (jebediah)
"Do you have the time, to listen to my whine, about nothing and everything all at once? I am one of those, melodramitic fools, neurotic to the bone no doubt about it. Sometimes I give myself the creeps. Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me. It all keeps adding up, I think I'm cracking up. Am I just paranoid? I'm just stoned". - Billy Joe Armstrong (green day)
"Sit around and watch the tube but nothings on, I change the channels for an hour or two. Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit, I'm sick of all the same old shit. In a house with unlocked doors, and I'm fucking lazy". - Billy Joe Armstrong
"My mum says I should get a job, but she don't like the one she's got". - Billy Joe Armstrong
"Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice, I'm speechless and redundant, coz I love you's not enough, I'm lost for words". - Billy Joe Armstrong
"Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to do. So make the best of this test, and don't ask why. It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right, I hope you had the time of your life. So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind. Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time. Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial. For what it's worth, it was worth all the while. It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right, I hope you had the time of your life". - Billy Joe Armstrong
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self". - found on a Radiohead site, so I suspect Thom Yorke
"If I could be who you wanted all the time". - Thom Yorke
"It's the best thing that you ever had, the best thing you have ever ever had. It's the best think that you've ever had, the best thing you have had, has gone away". - Thom Yorke
"I wish i was like you, easily amused". - Kurt Cobain
"What do I pay you for?". - Matthew Handley (pollyanna)
"I'll piss on everything that you own". - Matthew Handley
"If all you've got to prove today is your innocence, calm down, you're as guilty as can be. If all you've got to lose alludeds to yesterday, yesterday's through, now do anything you please" - Cerys Matthews
"Coming second best is close to ideal." - Cerys Mathews
"When faced with my demons, I clothe them and feed them. And i smile, yes i smile as they're taking me over." - Cerys Matthews
"London never sleeps, it just sucks, the life out of me....and the money from my pocket". - Cerys Matthews (catatonia)
"The sun is shining, we should be making hay, but we're dead from the waist down, like in Californ.i.a". - Cerys Matthews
"Victory is empty, there are lessons in defeat". - Cerys Matthews
"They recomended counelling, but I don't need to talk, I don't get off on communal changes". - Cerys Matthews
"Joan of ark come kiss my art, leave a charcoal mark. There's so much more to solitary refinement". - Cerys Matthews
"If you live a lie you'll die a liar.....pants on fire". - Cerys Matthews
"Her treasured chest was sunken equally cursed and blessed, in her Versace dress, too eager too impress". - Cerys Matthews
"The ad beggs 'buy bottled water' but we know that it tastes of piss, we should be getting out tampons free, DIY gynaecology". - Cerys Matthews
"And don't cry if crying means you're sorry. Whatever the case I always felt out of place. As a matter of fact I always felt like that around you". - Cerys Matthews
"It's me and you against the world now". - Tommy Scott (space)
"(both)You stoped us from killing each other (dum dum dum) you'll never know but you saved our lives......(Cerys)I've never thrown my nickers at you........(Tommy)and I don't come from Wales". - Tommy Scott and Cerys Mathews
"I used to call you satan, but now you call me your dehlila". - Cerys Mathews
"The female of the speicies is more deadly than the male". Tommy Scott
"And all the simple things are simply too complicated for my life". - Gwen Stefani (no doubt)
"And all i wanted was the simple things, a simple kind of life". - Gwen Stefani
"She was a happy girl the day that she left me". - Scott Weiland (stone temple pilots)
"You know you're in a creative mood when you're in tune with your sub-concious". - Monica Maser
"I'm confused how some people can listen to music as if it's just background noise. I'm confused as to how some people can totally disregard the power of music. How can you resist letting it envelope your total existence? Music is life". - Jimmy Lo
"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do". - Olin Miller
"Nothing in education is more astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts". - Henry Adams
"But I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining". - I don't even know who does that song
-The above two quotes were on my folder when I was at school. The Henry Adams one created a little bit of a stir, and teachers were really against it. Then on one of my lighter days I added the bottom quote, as a follow-on contradiction of the previous. It was an attempt to get me motivated at school.
"I'm not an entertainment machine that turns on just for you". - Me, hehe, usually directed at Sarah.
"A friend is a person with whom you can dare to be yourself". - Frank Crane
"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are trully endless". - Mother Teresa
"Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles, and it will only perish through eternal peace". - Adolf Hitler
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination". - John Lennon
"Say what you mean, say what you mean. Not just what you think". - Peter Hardman (effigy)
"When I'm civilized, I cease to be". - Peter Hardman
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the great people make you feel that you, too, can become great". - Mark Twain
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him". - Booker Washington
"In a minute". - Sarah made me put this one up coz I'm always saying it
"Children require guidance and sympathy rather than instructions". - Anne Sullivan
"I guess the only one to be honest with is yourself. It's hardest to be yourself. I'm tired of seeing hardcore kids acting like they're so tough, so hard, so bad, but they actually have feelings. I have a lot of problems with all the testosterone". - Jon Davis (KoRn)
"You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice". - Bono (U2)
"I got bones beneath my skin, hey mister, there's a skeleton in every man's house. Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hang on everybody, there's a dead man trying to get out". - Adam Duritz
"How am I going to keep myself away from me?". Adam Duritz
"Time and time again, I can't please myself". - Adam Duritz
"Mama mama mama, why am I so alone? I can't go outside I'm scared I might not make it home. I'm alive I'm alive, but I'm sinking in, if there's anyone home at your place darling why don't you invite me in?". - Adam Duritz
"You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself to make yourself forget". - Adam Duritz
"Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog where no-one notices the contrast of white on white. And in-between the moon and you, angels get a better view of the crumbeling difference between wrong and right. Well I walk in the air, between the rain, threw myself and back again, where, I dunno. Maria says she's dying, threw the door I hear her crying why, I don't know". - Adam Duritz
"And she looks up at the building, says she's thinking of jumping, she says she's tired of life, she must be tired of something round here.....she's always on my mind". - Adam Duritz
"I'm waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive". - Adam Duritz
"What would you change if you could?". - Adam Duritz
"When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely". - Adam Duritz
"Beware the people who know the answer. Seek the company of those who are still trying to understand the question". - Billy Conolly
"I bet you are flying inside" - E (eels)
"There's a world outside, and I know coz I've heard talk. In my sweetest dream, I might go out for a walk. But I don't think I'm' ready yet. I'm not feeling up to it now. I'm just not that steady yet. And I don't need you telling me how". - E
"There's a spider, on the bathroom mirror, and right on top is my right eye". - E
"How do you stand when you've been crushed?". - E
"Are you one of the beautiful people, is my name on your list? I wanna be of the beautiful people, I wanna feel like I'm missed". - E
"Everyone needs to be somebody. Everyone needs to find someone who cares......but I dunno if you know what I mean coz I'm never on your list". - E
"The only truth is that everything is a lie". - E
"There's truth in everything, there's truth in lies, with all this knowledge I think I'm gonna be wise". - E
"They say I'm mental but I'm just confused, they say I'm mental but I've been abused, they say I'm mental coz I'm not amused by it all". - E
"It's like I gotta wire crossed up stairs, it's like I'm talking to a voice that doesn't excist". - E
"Life is good and I feel great.....coz mumma said I was a great mistake". - E
"You're such a beautiful freak, I wish there were more just like you. You're not like all of the others.....and that is why I love you". - E
"A cat named Lola, with a violent past, is balled up asleep 'cross her knee". - E
"Spunky knows she can change the world, in her own little way". - E
"And if you don't like what they are telling you, well you can't teach a blind man to see.....I can see". - E
"And no-one will know my name until it's on a stone". - E
"This could be your lucky day, in hell. Never know who it might be, at your door bell". - E
"And I will be quietly standing by, while slowly I am dying inside". - E
"Hold me in your arms. And let me be the one, who can feel, like I am a child in love". - E
"And when you forget I'm here, I'm not. It isn't really me that you forgot". - E
"You bite threw the big wall, the big wall bites back, you sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl". - Thom Yorke
"Scars are suvoniers you never lose, the past is never far". - Goo Goo Dolls
"And I don't want the world to see me, coz I don't think that they'd understand. When everything's made to be broken". - Goo Goo Dolls
"I hope this doesn't lower your opinion on me". - Daria
"I tried to be myself, yet I danced to your tunes". - Kathrine Wolfheart
"you can weed out 99.9% of the world's false spiritual movements if you find that they want money and says, 'How can you charge a tree to grow?'" - Sri Mataji
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing" - Charles Caleb Colton
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence" - Laurence Coughlin
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them" - ?
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it" - Andr Gide
"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope" - Arnold Glasow
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you" - ?
"you gotta work when the motivation hits you"
"Freedom is really there. it's on the other side of the fences we build ourselves".
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after"
"Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species"
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence" - H. L. Mencken"
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation" - Edward R. Murrow
"The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us" - Quentin Reynolds
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" - Joseph Stalin
"The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat" - Lily Tomlin
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" - Mark Twain
"It would not be true to say that i am no longer lonely. I have made myself articulate and understood to people in many parts of the world and this is something we all wish to do whether we're crippled, or not. Like everyone else i am actually punctuous at sometimes of my own isolation even missed people, and i often give up hope of ever being about to comunicate with them. It is not only the sort of isolation every writer or artist must experience in the creative mood if he is to create anything at all... its like a black cloud sweeping down on me unexpectedly cutting me off from others. a sort of death. i lay back in my chair by my own left foot keep time to a knew rhythm. now i could relax and enjoy myself completely... I was at peace....happy." - Christy Brown
"... again with your standards" - Alyssa from Chasing Amy
"Dance. Nothing left for me to do but Dance. All these bad times I'm going threw just Dance, I've got canned heat in my heals tonight baby". - Jay Jay (Jamiroquai)
"Grow my hair, grow my hair I am Jim Morrison. Grow my hair, I wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrison". - Thom Yorke (radiohead)
"And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven. Anyone can play guitar, one day there will be nothing anymore". - Thom Yorke
"Faith, your driving me away, you do it everyday, you don't mean it but it hurts like hell". - Thom Yorke
"You'd kill yourself for recognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke another mirror, you're turning into something you are not". - Thom Yorke
"Drying up in conversation you will be the one who cannot talk. All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love". - Thom Yorke
"They're the one's who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out. They're the one's who'll spit at you, you will be the one screaming out". - Thom Yorke
"We don't have any real friends". - Thom Yorke
"Be a world child form a circle before we all go under, and fade out again". - Thom Yorke
"You do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts". - Thom Yorke
"It's so beautiful up here, I don't ever want to land". - In the cover of Radiohead's CD 'The Bends'
"I'm a control freak". - Thom Yorke
"Exit Music was the first performance that we recorded where every note of it makes me happy". - Thom Yorke
"Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there". - Thom Yorke
"It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock". - Thom Yorke
"He's very quiet. He can get tense very quickly. He's moody and childish and aloof but he can also be very affectionate and friendly". - Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead guitarist) about Thom Yorke
"Music videos are not the soul of the music but merely one persons interpretation. I like the images that are created in my mind when I listen to music, not the images that someone else wants me to envision every time I hear a song". - Found in a New Radicals guestbook, the writer's name was 'Chris', but they left no email or page address.
"I have the music in me, but it doesn't come out as I would like it to". - Same guy as above
"I've lost it! I can't think anymore". - Daniel Pilkington (A friend from school and when I told him I put this quote up he went "YAY, I'm on the internet")
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend." - Red from the movie Shawshank Redemption
"My life is perfect, because I accepted it as it is". - Lenny Kravitz
"Nothing's right I'm torn. I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel" - Natalie Imbruglia
"You'd think about yourself if you thought I was dead". - Lenny Kravitz
"When you were here before, I couldn't look you in the eye. You're just like an angel, you're skin makes me cry. You float like a feather, in a beautiful world. You're so F**kin special. I wish I was special. But I'm a Creep. I'm a Weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. I dont care if it hurts. I wanna have control. I wanna perfect body. I wanna perfect soul. I want you to notice, when I'm not around. I wish I was special. You're so F**kin Special. But I'm a Creep. I'm a Weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. oooooow oooooow...she's running out the door. she's running out, she run run run ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun. Whatever makes you happy, what ever you want. You're so F**kin special. I wish I was special. but i'm a creep. i'm a weirdo. what the hell am i doing here ? i dont belong here. i dont belong here". - Thom Yorke (radiohead) with Creep.
"I can't remember how many times I've try to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass". - Adam Duritz
"Do you see the way the tree bends, does it inspire?". - Eddie Vedder (pearl jam)
"Seems that needlessly it's getting harder to find an approach and a way to live". - Eddie Vedder
"You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets, ohh, or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who can forgive yourself. Ohhhhh........Makes much more sense to live in the present tense". - Eddie Vedder
"It's all just inadvertent imitation, and I don't mean mine. It's all across this nation. If it's just inadvertent simulation, a pattern in all mankind. What's got the whole world faking it?". - Stone Gossard (pearl jam)
"Stopped at the supermarket people stare like I'm a dog". - Eddie Vedder
"All these moments that I've missed". - Eddie Vedder
"Seek my part, devote myself, my small self, like a book amongst the many on a shelf". - Eddie Vedder
"Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise. Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live. Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel. Sometimes I speak of nothing at all. Sometimes I reach to myself, dear god". - Eddie Vedder
"I wave to all my friends.....yeah. They don't seem to notice me......no. Their eyes strait on the street.....Yo! Oh..Sidewalks cigarettes and seams.....yeah". - Eddie Vedder
"Hail hail the lucky ones. I refer to those in love". - Eddie Vedder
"Cannot find the comfort in this world". - Eddie Vedder
"I am at peace with my lust, I can kill cause in god I trust". - Eddie Vedder
"This land is mine, this land is free, I'll do what I want, yet irresponsibly". - Eddie Vedder
"It's evolution baby". - Eddie Vedder
"I'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired". - Eddie Vedder
"How much difference does it make?". - Eddie Vedder
"Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies. He don't know so he chases them away. Someday yet, he'll begin his life again. Oh whispering hands gently lead him away". - Eddie Vedder
"Back street lover on the side of the road, I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode, I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes, I play". - Eddie Vedder
"Once upon a time I could control myself". - Eddie Vedder
"I don't question our existence, I just question our modern needs". - Eddie Vedder
"I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off. I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on". - Eddie Vedder
"I got bugs. I got bugs in my room. Bugs in my bed. Bugs in my ears. Their eggs in my head. Bugs in my pockets. Bugs in my shoes. Bugs in the way I feel about you. Bugs on my window trying to get in. They don't go nowhere. Waiting, waiting...Bugs on my ceiling. Crowded the floor. Standing, sitting, kneeling. A few block the door. And now the questions...Do I kill them? Become their friend? Do I eat them? Raw or well done? Do I trick them? I don't think they're that dumb. Do I join them? Looks like that's the one. I got bugs on my skin. Tickle my nausea. I let it happen again. They're always taking over. I see they surround me I see, see them deciding my fate. Oh, that which was once, was once up to me. Now it's too late. I got bugs in my room. One on one. That's when I had a chance. I'll just stop now. I'll become naked and with them I'll become one". - Eddie Vedder with Bugs
"I'd rather be with an animal". - Eddie Vedder
"I got scratches all over my arms, one for each day since I fell apart". - Eddie Vedder
"I'll ride the wave where it takes me. I'll hold the pain.......Release me". - Eddie Vedder
"I will scream my lungs out until it feels this room". - Eddie Vedder
"Lets all meet up in the year 2000, wont it be strange when we're all fully grown". - Pulp
"Who could ever be so cruel, blame the devil for the things you do". - Beck
"Who would ever notice you, you fade into a shaded room". - Beck
"Tell me that it's nobodies fault, nobodies fault, but my own". - Beck
"I wanna defy the logic of all sexx laws". - Beck
"I'm a full grown man but I'm not afraid to cry". - Beck
"Freaks flock together, and make all the lesbians scream". - Beck
"Get me out of here". - Thom Yorke
"Time seems to stand quite still, in a childs world it always will." - Moody Blues
"I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back". - Daniel Johns (silverchair)
>"Been watching so much TV, I'm thinner than I should be, I'm like a waterlogged ball, That no-one wants to kick around anymore. An all day morning hair-do, That no comb can get through, It's all granola and beer, A calling card and a silk cut souvenir. I miss you like sleep. And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep. The morning when it starts, I don't look so good........Now I got a heavy heart. I talk a lot about football, And girls I kissed in Grade 4, I piss off my friends, I'm digging a hole just staring at the floor. Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain, I'm loving cigarettes again, I know every tune about guys and girls and hurts and hearts and moans. I miss you like sleep. And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep. But it's the morning when it starts, I don't look so sharp......Now I got a heavy heart. It's just a low rent paying, palpitating pulp under my shirt. But there's a weight that's sitting so bad oh it hurts, Oh God it hurts." - Tim Rogers (you am i) with Heavy Heart
"Had a scratch only you could itch". - Tim Rogers
"Ooh it's the rumble and moan, transistor AM cassette drone". - Tim Rogers
"'Artistic integrity'. It's such a loaded concept and ultimately no-one can judge an artist's integrity except the artist themself, others can only guess at what motivates someone to write songs, and make judgements based on their own taste in music, their own idea of what 'good music' and 'bad music' is and whatever true or false information has shaped their opinion of the artist in question. If you set out to make a million dollars by writing a throwaway radio-hit and you achieve just that, is your integrity in question? You stayed true to your aim didn't you? Your beliefs and ideologies weren't compromised were they? Good for you. Personally, I love writing and recording and touring and I hope to do it for as long as I'm able. I also hope to one day own a home and be able to afford further education, perhaps the possibility of children and the usual things a normal person hopes for and works towards. It seems that today a lot of people have a problem with some artists because they're on a major label or they appeared on a certain TV show or they're dressed a certain way or their music was heard on Neighbours etc. etc. etc. None of these are reasons to like or dislike a band. Music is music. You like it or your don't like it but you can't assign a value to it". -Paul Dempsey (something for kate)
"Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage". - Billy Corgan (smashing pumpkins)
"Tomorrow's just an excuse". - Billy Corgan
"Spaceboy they'll kill me, before I'm dead and gone". - Billy Corgan
"Mother weep the years I'm missing, all the time I can't be given.....back". - Billy Corgan
"Today is the greatest day I've ever known. Can't live for tomorrow, tomorrow's much to long". - Billy Corgan
"Today is the greatest day I've ever known. Can't wait for tomorrow, I might not have that long". - Billy Corgan
"I used to be a little boy so old in my shoes, and what I choose is my choice what's a boy supposed to do. The killer in you is the killer in you - my love - I'll send this smile over to you". - Billy Corgan
"I can handle the fighting it's the effection I can't stand, and I don't mind us talking just don't try to touch my hand". - Kevin Mitchell (jebediah)
"Two months of fun, two years of pain. Add it up, I'm on my own again". - Gregg Alexander
"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail". - Luciano Pavarotti
"Often boundries can provide freedom". - Daria's Teacher
"It doesn't have to be meaningful, just as long as it's honest". - Daria's Mother
"Driving back to her appartment, for the moment we're alone. And she's alone. And I'm alone.....Now I know it". - Ben Folds
"I'm just a city boy, looking for a home". - Keb 'Mo'
"I'm tired of all these concrete trees". - Keb 'Mo'
"Everyone likes a party, but no-one wants to clean". - Keb 'Mo'
"And I'd like to see you change somehow, but I'm a little busy right now, just a little busy right now". - Keb 'Mo'
"I'm just a victom of comfort, I've got no-one else to blame. I'm just a victom of comfort, crying shame". - Keb 'Mo'
"If you become obsessed with a goal and you're really determined to get it, you're going to get it no matter what it is." - Kobe Bryant
"We're going to keep fighting and good things happen to people who fight hard". - Robert Horry
"I hit Shaq every day, whether we're playing or not, just to get him used to it. I try every tactic I learned from Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn. . . .It really doesn't work. I wind up going to the chiropractor every afternoon". - John Salley
"I've always kind of been a bit of a rebel, but I've done it in a way that's a little different". -Kurt Rambis, on the similarities between Him and Denis Rodman.
"You cant be afraid to face the reality of not winning, so it didnt faze me at all. I wasnt nervous, I wasnt jittery. You gotta go out there and do the job" - Denis Rodman
"My middle kid loved Denis Rodman and he wants red hair". - Michael Jordan
"Regardless of what happens, I still have confidence in my abilities, so I don't have anything to be ashamed about. I don't know why other people would think I should be ashamed of anything.” -Kurt Rambis
"It's just a game. Never forget what's important". - Kurt Rambis
"There is a lot of negative things that happened to me in my life, within the game of basketball and outside basketball, but I've always been able to take that negative and turn it into a positive as a learning experience, but yet move forward from". - Michael Jordan
"There are a lot of things about my lifestyle that I truly don't like but I've come to accept, because I've stepped into the forum that I have to deal with it. There is so much speculation about things that are totally untrue, but you have to deal with it and you have to let it roll off the back and deal with it. You learn not to bring it too much into focus because it's not worth the headache". - Michael Jordan
"If you lose your temper, you lose the fight". - from the movie The Kid.
"The first to attest, I act on self interest". - Matthew Handley (pollyanna)
"I want you to come walk this world with me". - Heather Nova
"Sitting here on the waters edge, now that the storm has gone, the first time in years it feels like, nothing's wrong. There have been a lot changes, I was so lost for a while, sitting here I remember how, it's easy to smile." - Heather Nova
"Ohhhh let me grow young, like a brand new day, like I've just begun". - Heather Nova
"Gotta try to remember this morning gotta store it up inside, bring it out when it's cold in the city and I'm worried and tired". - Heather Nova
"I need an island". - Heather Nova
"It's something I feel, oh yeah, you are an angel.....or maybe you could have been". - Heather Nova
"So keep me in your bed all day.......Nothing heals me like you do". - Heather Nova
"Maybe there's a light thats always on, maybe we're not only human". - Heather Nova
"I just wanna lie here awhile, tempting fate". - Heather Nova
"I don't think I can breathe now, with you gone". - Heather Nova
"He used to do surgery, for girls in the 80's, but gravity always wins". - Thom Yorke (radiohead)
"She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing. My fake plastic love". - Thom Yorke
"And I can't help the feeling, I could blow threw the ceiling, if I just turn and run". - Thom Yorke
"I'm not living, I'm just killing time". - Thom Yorke
"The easiest way to sleep at night is to carry on believing that I don't exist ~ the easiest way to sell your soul is to carry on believing that we don't exist ~ it must be hard ~ hard ~ with your head on backwards". - Thom Yorke
"I'm a rabbit in your headlights, scared of the spotlight, you don't come to visit, I'm stuck in this bed". - Thom Yorke
"I'm a rabbit in your headlights, christian suburbanite, washed down the toilet, money to burn". - Thom Yorke
"If you're frightened of dying and then you hold on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth". - UNKLE
"I wish that they'd swoop down in the country lane late at night when I'm driving, take me onboard their beautiful ship, show me the weird world as I'd love to see it. I'd tell all my friends but they'd never believe me, they'd think that I'd finally lost it completely, I'd show them the stars and the meaning of life - they'd shut me away. But I'll be all right". - Thom Yorke
"Do I really hope to be on a spaceship? Why not? I believe there are aliens under the ground. I want to see them. I want to see ghosts. I want to walk on the street smiling, knowing that there are little green creatures with incredible large brains and big, beautiful, black eyes, that are filming us with their videocameras." - Thom Yorke
"Karma is an important idea. I like it. It makes me nicer to people. It fills me with joy. This song makes me laugh. It was Ed's idea". - Thom Yorke about Karma Police<
"'Paranoid Android' is full of images of people that I saw in a pub the night before we went to the studio. Most lyrics on 'OK Computer' are actually polaroids inside my head". - Thom Yorke about Paranoid Android
"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it.... It wrote itself. We were just its messengers... Its biological catylysts. It's core is a complete mystery to me... and (pause) you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless... All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve... 'Street Spirit' has no resolve... It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song... It's called detachment... Especially me.. I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it... I'd crack. I'd break down on stage.. that's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning... I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together... That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'.. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion... (pause) I'd crack.... Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to.. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh...and it's real...and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that to long, I'd crack. I can't believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song... That's why I'm convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart.
I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much. (very long pause). I didn't write that song". - Thom Yorke about Street Spirit>
"It barks at no one else but me, like its seen a ghost. I guess its seen the sparks a-flowin, no one else would know. Sometimes i get over charged, thats when you see sparks. They ask me where the hell I'm going at 1000 feet per second........hey man slowdown. idiot slowdown" - Jonny Greenwood (radiohead)
"I love the lyrics. "fitter happier / more productive / comfortable / not drinking too much / regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)": We used that advice in a lot of magazines to promote the album. I think that some people really believe that message and think that we are some kind of health-freaks." Ed O'Brian about Fitter Happier
"The others were downstairs, 'rockin', and I crept upstairs and did this in ten minutes. I was feeling incredible hysteria and panic, and it was so liberating to give the lyrics to this neutral-sounding computer. I had about three months where I couldn't write anything, but I constantly had lists. Then I realised that it was the only way I was going to say what I needed to say. Sometimes, before you have a genuine feeling it is circumvented by the outside, your brain is apologising for things that haven't even happened yet. But me, I listen to the piano bit." - Thom Yorke about Fitter Happier
"I will try not to breathe, I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees. These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold". - Michael Stipe (rem)
"I will try not to worry you, I have seen things that you will never see. Leave it to memory me. I shudder to breathe". - Michael Stipe
"Don't let yourself go, everybody cries, and everybody hurts sometimes. Sometimes everything is wrong". - Michael Stipe
"Nightswimming deserves a quiet night. I'm not sure all these people understand. It's not like years ago, the fear of getting caught, of recklessness and water. They cannot see me naked. These things they go away, replaced by everyday". - Michael Stipe
"I threw up when I saw what I'd done". - Michael Stipe
"Will you live to 83? Will you ever welcome me? Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?". - Michael Stipe
"I don't want to disappoint you, I'm not here to anoint you, I would lick your feet but is that the sickest move? I wear my own crown and sadness and sorrow, and who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange? My loss, and here we go again". - Michael Stipe
"I cried the other night, I can't even say why". - Michael Stipe
"The words to the songs are meant to be heard, not read". - Michael Stipe
"And I need you now somehow". - Daniel Johns
"Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world, and a fucked up world it is too". - Bono
"And all I want is you". - Bono
"Did you come here for forgiveness? Did you come to raise the dead? Did you come here to play Jesus, to the lepers in your head?". - Bono
"Well it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light, we're one, but we're not the same, we get to carry each other, carry each other". - Bono
"You know in all of the time that we've shared I've never been so scared. Doll me up in my bad luck, I'll meet you there. I wish I never had taken this dare, I wasn't quite prepared. Doll me up in my bad luck, I'll meet you there" - Dave Grohl
"Too alarming now to talk about, take your pictures down and shake it out" - Dave Grohl
"There goes my hero, he's ordinary" - Dave Grohl
"Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds, dreaming aloud. Things just won't do without you, matter of fact, I'm on your back" - Dave Grohl
"If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you" - Dave Grohl
"If you'd accept surrender give up some more" - Dave Grohl
"Breathe out so i can breathe you in, hold you in" - Dave Grohl
"These notes are marked return to sender, I'll save this letter for myself. I wish you only knew how good it is to see you" - Dave Grohl
"These steps I take don't get me anywhere, I'm getting further from myself. One thing is always true, how good it is to see you" - Dave Grohl
"How could I end up in the hands of someone else" - Dave Grohl
"Now and then I'll try to bend, under pressure wind up snapping in the end" - Dave Grohl
"One last thing before I quit I never wanted any more than I could fit into my head I still remember every single word you said and all the shit that somehow came along with it still there's one thing that comforts me since I was always caged and now I'm free" - Dave Grohl
"All this talk of getting old, it's getting me down my love". - Richard Ashcroft
"And if you wanna show, then just let me know and I'll sing in your ear again" - Richard Ashcroft
"Oh, you're too afraid to touch, too afraid you'll like it too much" - Richard Ashcroft
"I'm standing naked, smiling, I feel no disgrace with who I am" - Richard Ashcroft
"Lookin' back on my life you know that all I see are things I could've changed, I should have done. Where did the good times go? Good times so hard to hold. This time, this time....this time I'm gonna find" - Richard Ashcroft
"Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye" - Richard Ashcroft
"Yes there's love if you want it, don't sound like a sonnet, my lord". - Richard Ashcroft
"Coz I have found, all that shimers in this world is sure to fade.......away.......again". - Fuel
"She says that love is for fools who fall behind.....I'm somewhere in-between". - Fuel
"It's the same thing but it's almost as different". - Beck
"Coz everybody knows death creaps in slow, till you feel save in his arms". - Beck
"And I'll be looking for my shaddow, but this place is so bright and so clean". - Beck
"I can't believe you". - Beck
"That was a good drum break". - Beck
"I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me". - Beck
"you're worried there might not be anything at all inside, but that you're worried should tell you thats not right" - Ben Folds
"who needs bread when we've got dirt" - ian
"what leg would an octopus use to kick a soccer ball?" - ian
"doesnt a near miss mean you actually hit?" - ian
"i feel like a spider person" - ian
"i feel like a pirate" - ian
"i feel like al bundy" - ian
"i feel like a wind up toy" - ian
"i feel like james bond" - ian when using his credit card to open doors
"i feel like i dont know who i am anymore" - ian
"i have too many i feel likes" - ian
"act all girlie for a minute and you start getting smart" - ian
"we were gonna go clothes shopping, but seeing as she came fully clothed i guess that idea's out of the question" - ian
"i saw too much stupid stuff" - ian
"i wanna be a space marcian" - ian
"geez its hard to talk, burb and hickup all at the same time" - ian
"it was like over in 10 seconds... im glad i'm not a duck" - chelsea
"hi...... oh shit, its kenny" - chelsea
"did adam have a belly button?" - chelsea, when we were baging religion
"the TV's not working..... where's me girlfriend?" - ian
"that one's still all fury" - ian
"i love pointing the torch at candles. makes 'em feel inadequate" - ian
"what colour is sound?" - ian
"screw the public. i would if i had half the chance" - ian
"i know what i'd be doing if i was on my own for 5 minutes" - ian
"i better shut me mouth before i dig deeper into me little hole" - ian
"its pretty bad.... we're both just dribbling shit.... but it makes sense" - ian
"who knows what's going on.... I know I don't" - ian
"i guess its back to thinking about robots" - rowan
"from now on im going to take everything" - rowan
"it was all poo-ish, and poo-like, in a poo-ie kinda way" - rowan
"today is not a good day for breakfast" - rowan
"washing day, is a very dangerous day" - rocko
"i thought i told you to shutup" - leah
"i eat poo. i ate poo for breakfast" - leah
"that deserves a headscratch" - brudos
"you're discusting... I love it!" - brudos
"maybe they think boring is interesting" - scooter
"first everyone gets a watch, then i gotta get a watch. then everyone gets a car, then i gotta get a car. then everyone get a car" - hutch
"i figured out how to do stuff" - andrew mcgregor
"i shouldnt laugh, but its not me, so its funny" - rowan
"you're not smoking, the cigarette is" - dad
"you can talk all you want, but at the end of the day, it's you Vs you." - Annie
"buisnessy jobs are shit..people always seem so stressed out and shit...for what? a extra couple of grand a year? whats the point of doing something that makes you unhappy ?" - Jess
"i could whinge some more about how slack i am, but i can't be bothered" - Lisa Jones
"i find it humorous that although yes the police threat of capture is apparent, the main prevention to crime is to brain wash children into thinking something is bad." - adam styles
"unless the horse sucks, then you stay off and kick it in the ass" - andrew harris, about the term fall off a horse you get right back on
"See, I'm having this much fun with a pen, imagine what i could do with a hard rubbish collection" - Jim Young
"people only say the word smartass when they're wrong, so if it was a life threatening situation, the smartass would live and the person saying smartass would be falling off a cliff or being assraped by a monkey or something" - jim
"people get 'immortalised' on film, in a photo, and on paper i guess... cause when i die of cancer, people can look at me on film, or a photo of me, or read what i've said, and say 'oh yeah, jim, i remember that guy! what a tool'" - Jim
"cancer has been an in joke with me for years, whenever i'm sick i say i have cancer, and i genuinely believe that some time before a typical age, i will get cancer, because cancer sucks... and i don't eat my vegies" - Jim
"most people (general human population talk again) have two layers, the layer you see and the layer you don't see, like maybe the layer you do see is the makeup and the happy laughing face and anything they lead you to believe, and then the layer you DON'T see is the person who's upset cause their parents broke up and they havent had a proper upbringing and they've never gotten over it. but these people are really typical, and the example of the parents etc, thats probably a more drastic situation in those kind of people. but i mean people who go a lot deeper than that, deeper thinking, deeper ability to think, people who are really really smart without having to be good at school or conventional things, people who you can look in the eye and tell there's more to them, that kind of thing, these people have more layers than the other people" - Jim
"when i have to put something like that into words on a computer screen i never bother doing it properly" - Jim
"if i prejudge someone as shallow, then it's up to them to prove otherwise, but usually i'm right because no offense to the WORLD but a lot of people are shitheads" - Jim
"if people actually ask me stuff in person, i answer it properly, and only afterwards do i think 'wait a minute, why the fuck did i answer that?'" - Jim
"you cant help feeling like a human cause we are humans and even though that means we do totally idiotic things, its not going to change until we evolve into something else... frogs maybe" - Jim
"the whole world is in for a big change, and i'm glad that i'll be there to see it. i think our generation are divided into two halves.. those who can see that something is seriously wrong with the world, and who want to change it, and those who are quite happy as long as they get their cars and their puffy jackets and their drugs and their sex... but the reality is, in 10 years these people are going to either be dead, homeless, or working in a bank with a twitch in one eye because of the crack they smoked as a 12 year old kid... my point being, these people have no importance in the future, so the thinkers of the world can do what they want" - Jim
"i suppose he can't help being a jackass, but it gives me the right to dislike him" - jim
"i'm never really fully happy, and never really fully sad" - leah jackson
"nothing's entirely true" - leah jackson
"you can't truly be happy unless you are ignorant" - leah jackson
"it's so sad.......I hate it when people break up, makes me feel so aweful and i wanna help so bad. specially with you chris, I hate it so much when you get hurt" - Lindsay
"hehe, Chris your the one persons who compliments mean so much. I love you too, so let's talk about somethin bounCy to put u in a happy mood" - Lindsay
"good good........cute chris needs to smile" - Lindsay
"Nobody has figured out the meaning of life, yet almost everyone knows how to make pudding... I don't get it." - lindsay
"Most people are like "oh I never lie, except if it hurts people's feelings".....And personally, screw people's feelings. The truth hurts, people have to deal with that". - Kim McClure
"I'm not sorry for ripping it up, because at the time it was what my heart was telling me to do. i had this thing i made for you out of love... and i felt no love for you at that time and felt that you didn't love me either. so i tore it up. and i'm not sorry for that. but i am sorry that you never got to see it. that doesn't make sense, but things rarely do." - Kim
"If I knew where I was going I would already be there" - Billy Corgan
"it's really weird how you can just hear a lyric like that and something in your mind just clicks and you're taken in. it's so amazing. like when i heard that today i was like "wow.. yeah.. exactly", cos everyone is saying all this stuff to me, you know about where i want to go and want i want to do after this year and i'm supposed to make up my mind like THAT, and it's just so frustrating. i wish someone would just tell me what the hell i'm supposed to do, cos i really don't know. i do know though, that i want to make a difference." - Kim
"the whole situation of the future doens't look great for either of us, does it? i wish when we were born we were all just given a piece of paper that tells us what we are supposed to do when we "grow up" and that's that. actually... if that happened i would probably want to rebel against it knowing me..." - Kim
"perception is everything. i read some poetry and i get nothing from it... other stuff can really change me. meaning really lies in the eye of the beholder..." - Kim
"hehe, yeah i know what you mean, the sweetest words i've ever heard were "i understand"" - Kim
"You're constantly inspiring me to be all that I can be" - Kim
"me too" - Kim......after i told her i think too much.
"well that made me feel better actually... i don't agree, but it made me feel better." - Kim
"you see i would... if i could be bothered... but i can't. so i'm not moving." - Kim
"the word 'punk' started as an insult, a word which loosely meant a homosexual male. the word changed around the late 70's, when the sex pistols, forerunners of the punk movement, forged a notch in the music industry which was not shallow, which was not about kissing ass, which was not in any way about cramming 150 notes into one bar of music to make it seem like genius. gradually there 'wear whatever the fuck i can afford' ripped clothing turned into a trend, much to their disgust, which of course went against everything they had tried in the first place. so as you can see, those skater fuckers blink 182 in their ugly designer gargo pants, are not punk in that way." - Kim
"when you're 4 you don't have to justify why you call your turtle stampy, you just do." - Kim
"but i think crying/screaming/throwing things/being angry/being bitter/whatever is all healthy and all okay. it's a natural part of the grieving process." - Kim
"well hugs are one of my many talents" - Kim
"i have a love/hate relationship with my mind." - Kim
"Pfft...school work".- Kim McClure
"my happiness is always fleeting, always down-played by the common knowledge that anguish will follow." - kim
"days like this i dont know what to do with myself, all day and all night". - Fiona Apple
"only exciting people get bored. boring people are quite content to sit around and be boring" - Sarah Cunningham
"you can be yourself, you just cant be what you want" - sarah jane cunningham
"if you're good friends with the person, the way you affect them will eventually affect you yourself.. that's why getting too close to people is a dangerous thing. their pain becomes yours, too.. especially when their pain is your fault." - sandra
"when you've turned these things around in your head for awhile they take on a rather unremarkable qality" - sandra
"the realm of art: where i let my ego have its runabouts" - sandra
"that's what i like about winter. it shuts people up" - sandra
"i've come to accept that i'm stupid in a few areas of my thinking. it's no matter. we can't be intelligent all the time" - sandra
"[WHY does icq never let my friends receive files..?]" - sandra
"i think of my ego as a tiny cringeing froglike creature in a cage.." - sandra
"well, i think i'm a better person for it.. friends are like mirrors, you know.. they show you the corrupted bits of your soul that you often can't see for yourself.. and they're generally good to bounce ideas off.. i can't see me getting anywhere mentally without other peoples' opinions.." - sandra
"honesty is the only way things can ever work out*.. i'm kind of realizing that now. truth, well.. that's another matter. i don't claim to know everything, but observation seldom lies [as long as it's objective*]" - sandra
"heh.. i'd rather be human than any of the vast assortment of hideous sub-human creatures people are turning themselves into these days.. mentally and physically. it's really disgusting." - sandra
"if cells are so smart, why don't they just break off and live independently?" - sandra
"evolution is the transcending of our own humanity" - sandra
"the only way to truly be free of humanity is to let out the soul.. throw away the meat [die] and until the day i die, i'll inevitably remain stuck in a cage that limits my non-human side. that's just the way it is.. and it's bloody frustrating"- sandra
"i'm immersed in a success-oriented atmosphere all day at school. all these would-be prefessionals. i can't find humour anywhere else but in my own mind." - sandra
"i love sleeping. sleeping involves not-thinking. i can just escape into my dreams, which are pretty wierd sometimes, but at least they're *different*.. y'know? they're like rides at an amusement park: you do nothing, and they carry you along. [or i could just not dream at all and i'll wake up knowing there was this space of time in which i did no thinking whatsoever*: it's reassuring]" - sandra
"every journey has to have a destination to make it a journey at all, really.. and every destination has a journey between you and it. life and death rely on one another to define one another. but i think we're scared of death because it signals the end of journeying [after all, travel is the fun bit*]" - sandra
"when you travel to a city, another journey begins within that city.. but death seems to be a city where you can't move and aren't free to explore anything anymore, and that's what people are afraid of." - sandra
"don't you wish you could buy your own signboard somewhere and change the message every week or something.. just to make people think?" - sandra
"wow.. your brain's got a fairly loaded vault of apt qotations, doesn't it?" - sandra
"hide me from the so-anti-hip-they're-hip artsy-flakey-students" - sandra
"no-one has all of the answers, i wish i had a few" - kc
"whats with jesus still screwing up my holidays" - kc
"it's so good to know that i'm not the only freak" - kc
"maybe radiohead dont know everything" - KC
"sometimes its ok to float but other times its good to have direction" - kc
"i wish love was the only thing that's important" - kc
"a preformer is not the same as an artist" - kc
"saving the world isnt about joining organisations or donating millions of dollars to starving people in africa... its about the small things... the things that make people smile" - KC
"you know there's something wrong with the world when people are more discusted by a photo of a shit than murder and rape"- KC
"its like when you get told you have a choice then are given 100 reasons why you dont have a choice." - KC
"im a walking paradox. sometimes marilyn, sometimes manson. There are similar contradictions in my day to day life" - marilyn manson
"growing up i was afraid of being possessed by the devil. as an adult i'm afraid of being possessed by the world, and by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what i feel strongly about" - marilyn manson
"anytime i go to japan im pretty positive about it coz i look at it as just another opportunity, just another experience. if i didnt really wanna do it i wouldnt do it because i refuse to do anything that i dont want to do. thats the only thing you can go to bed at night being happy about, is knowing you're doing something you believe in" - marilyn manson
"its a great feeling to write a song, but to be able to perform it, it takes on a whole different life" - marilyn manson
"It is part of the personality. I never really wanted ALL of it to go away. Parts made me entertaining, and I didn't want to lose those bits of my "soul."" - Emily Colas about her obsessive compulsive disorder
"I am so much better now. The medication made it so much better. To be able to go out and distract myself, rather than be home alone, has done wonders to break the cycle." - Emily Colas
"insanity is the current vehicle of our secular myth of self-transcendence." - Susan Sontag
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life". - Mr. B, my grade 6 teacher. its old i know but he was the first to tell me.
"And maybe some day, I'm gonna stay. But not today". - Adam Duritz
"I declare a holiday, fall asleep, drift away". - Thom Yorke