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My favorite quotes (in no particular order):

"Love is sacred and life is sacred and no matter how much bullshit you have
to go through, we all possess a well of hope inside of us that can't be killed. And I can't
imagine that's a meaningless thing." -Dan Wilson, Semisonic

"If you want to blame music for someone hurting themselves, then you can just as easily blame Shakespeare writing Romeo & Juliet which is something I was taught when I was a kid, and that's a story about two teenagers that killed themselves because their parents don't understand them and I think the key lesson is that parents don't understand their kids. If you take more time to talk to your kids, your kids are going to live happier lives." -Marilyn Manson

"The rebellion is not about what clothes you are wearing or whether you turn your back to the audience--it's not about shocking for shock's sake. It's not about singing Smack My Bitch Up and pretending to be hard. All you do is to get your name on K-Mart's black list. It easy--and boring. So Prodigy, if you want to be hard, go to an abortion clinic and try to help those girls who have had an abortion in a front of 20 shotguns. Try to be rough and don't tell how you beat up your girlfriends--if you have the balls to do that!" -Tori Amos

"There are fringe people and there are fringe people, and the truly fringe people are the ones where you open a phone book and you put your finger down, and there's someone's name, and you call 'em up, and they're fucking weird." -Ben Folds

"Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson." -Tori Amos

"If you tell people you've just seen a UFO they think you're crazy, but if you say you've talked to Jesus in your toilet they'll say it's a miracle" -Marilyn Manson

Some critics have claimed you're using your personal hardships as a marketing tool. How do you deal with that?
"Fuck them. If they lose a baby, then they can call me. That's my experience. I always write about my experiences, whether it's rape or losing a baby... or picnics, falling in love with women that are gorgeous, falling in love with men that are gorgeous. It's all a part of it. It's all a marketing tool if you want to go there. If those people are going to come after me, well, let them lose a baby and write a poem, write anything about it and I'll fucking crucify them." -Tori Amos

"Overcoming fear of strangers has been one of the greatest tasks of my life. Every time my mom walked into the dakota I would walk behind her, just in case somebody shot me--I would take the bullet. These were the kind of thoughts I would have when I was six or seven." -Sean Lennon

"These dogs are homosexual." -Butthead

"The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat." -Beavis

"I like their songs, I just don't think they're very.........bright" -Damon Albarn (Blur) speaking of Oasis.

"It's better to burn out then to fade away." -Kurt Cobain

"It's not fat, it's glandular." -Homer Simpson

"Music is a drug--if I could melt vinyl down and shoot it into my arm, I would" -DJ Josh Wink

"It's been cool to be cool now for so long that now it's cool NOT to be cool." -Ben Folds

"Some people tuck their sweaters into their jeans and that's just wrong." -Robert Sledge

"My mom said that I was a sissy and that I should go back to wrestling camp"-Robert Sledge

"I would say that people are just being lazy if they can't find meaning (in song lyrics).  You know: be creative. I don't want to fill out the picture. You fill in the blanks.  That's the way it should be." -Beck

"Yeah, the original version of 'Brick,' when it used to be called 'Satan Is My Master.' " -Ben Folds

"People always say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster, or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like--a moment, where being myself, and my life right where I am is, like, enough." -Angela Chase, My So-Called Life

"There's something about Sunday night that really makes you want to kill yourself. And that creepy '60 Minutes' watch that sounds like your whole life ticking away." -Angela Chase, MSCL

"What I, like, dread is when people who know you in completely different ways end up in the same area. You have to develop this, like, combination you on the spot." -Angela Chase, MSCL

"My parents keep asking how school was. It's like saying, 'How was that drive-by shooting?' You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive." -Angela Chase, MSCL

"Things about Sharon were just getting to me. How people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend. Like no one is ever allowed to change, not even their hair color. Maybe the theme for the yearbook should be stagnation. Utter and complete stagnation. Like...a stinking, mossy swamp. Called Liberty High School. Liberty. Right. Tons of freedom everywhere." -Angela Chase, MSCL

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
'Pooh!' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.
'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"

"Rabbit's clever", said Pooh thoughtfully
"Yes, Rabbit's clever", said Piglet
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

"It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." -Christopher Robin, on doing Nothing.

"'It's Today!' squeaked Piglet.
'My favorite day,' said Pooh."

"I will not compromise my music, my ideals or my nap schedule." -Trent Lane

"If I speak in human and angelic tounges, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand  my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing."

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

"If you call me an airy-fairy new age hippy waif, I will cut your penis off." -Tori Amos

"We live in a society that would rather see two men fight than two men kiss."

"Influences are subconscious, and when people askthat, I'm like, 'Uhhhhh, I don't know.'"-Ben Folds

"First you cook...and then you chill." --Barry and LeVon

"Fuck off, man, I don't wanna be your spokesperson!" -Ben Folds, on a suggestion to be the spokesman for geeks.

"If anyone were to say, 'You attack certain people for what they believe in,' I attack all people for what they believe in. If you can stand up for what you believe in, I'll respect you for that. But if you back down, you never believed it."  -Marilyn Manson.

"I think [success is] a pretty negative thing. I think trying to recapture success, when somebody is trying to write another hit song, I think that's pretty destructive and hard to avoid because it means repeating. Like, 'How did I do so well before? I'd better do that same thing again.' Bands as well become that way..." - Melora Creager, Rasputina

"The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. You have Beavis and Butthead telling you what music you're allowed to like and not like, and you've got sitcoms that have canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know what the joke is--people are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves because America has raised them like that."  -M. Manson

"Never ask for the shirt off the back of a naked man." -Anonymous

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt"-An ancient Chinese saying.

"It's not me to go stand on the street and scream about an issue" -Ben Folds

"My mind was going 100 seconds per hour..." -MTV's Jesse Camp.

Is rock dead?
"Yes;  but I believe in necrophila" -Dave Grohl
 
 

"You have absolutely no idea how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer. You'll rule the world" -Shirley Manson about growing up.

"Fame doesn't make you more confident I have to live with myself. l have to look in the mirror and see myself with my eyes not with the eyes of some love-struck boy in the audience. lt stems from my childhood Kids can be cruel and they were." -Shirley Manson