Musicians

"Loving, we've been loving, but sometimes hate is better You can't keep out the killers with love, man Hating, we've been hating, but only love can heal up the hate ~ Nightfriends"

"So now we're cruisin' down this shuddering highway with the dead sun shining on my back. ~ Myrrh"

"Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling Had ever got below the floor Or penetrate the ceiling ~ Destination"

"Beyond that void is a place Where figments from bad dreams are banished Childhood nightmares all come seeking And adult logic nearly vanished ~ Chaos"

"Inside the car sat a sulky blonde And on her lap the road went on and on As she dresses I look to the ground Perhaps I know where the place can be found, and on ~ The Night is Very Soft"

"Everything is going wrong All my songs are coming true ~ Mistress"

"I've got a nickname for you, I call you weakness I get a little strength out too, or is it meekness ~ Paradox"

"Close to you, hear all you say Even though you're continents away ~ It Doesn't Change"

"Why are those buildings swaying like trees? ~ Hotel Womb"

"Sometimes I wander under prehistoric skys Here she comes with a penetrating stare cold desert stars feel and sparkle like frost, they are so lost his seed of adulation is your butter and your bread, it's an exquisite corpse and its lips are red If you're alone and you're feeling blue, everyone in Persia probably feels like you do. ~ Lost"

"You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using What are you using that's stronger than the love Sometimes I'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove Listen to the wind tearing at the windows Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs Men/man of sorrows lost into the crowd ~ Richochet"

"The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning all the rest is just bullshit. ~ Authority"

"The universe is female Eluding the science of men You sway and you swagger with your neat little dagger You're gonna blow it again .... I'll prove her existence in everything The soul of her rivers and stones Her acquiescence in everything Her essence, her presence, her bones. ~ Essence"

"Follow her down to worship some god Who never speaks to me, I wonder if that's odd Then he says you're never listening. ~ Lost"

"Great cities, or the endless beautiful plains stretched out before his jaded gaze and disappeared into the nothingness of his feeling. ~ Fall in Love"

"In the space between our houses some bones have been discovered but our procession lurches on as if we have recovered... ~ Destination"

"It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared ~ Into My Hands"

"On this very spot a great city once stood, It oozed with evil but it felt so good... ~ City"

"The pines smell sweet in the frozen air, and their silhoutte's just fading there, the wolves crouch close, against the snow but where we're running I don't know, In villages and soft sad towns the candles sway as night comes down, cold bones creak and strange beasts cry, watching shadows in the sky... All I have, all I need, all I got.....is providence. ~ Providence"

"She put her foot down on the oscillation pedal, she was a transdimensional speeder... ~ Terra Nova Cain"

"I paid eighty dollars for this wedding ring, I couldn't take it off if I tried... ~ Hotel Womb"

"Ugliness you have to know, beauty you can't teach ~ Disappear"

"Like a womb, the night was all around ~ Disappear"

"And she beckons to you with her fingers and lies She says: can't you slice the price of your paradise. ~ A Month of Sundays"

"There were many guests at the table Misfortune, jealousy, and sloth Acting fine, drink the wine Spill it on the tablecloth - "Feast""

"Just like you I am a wanderer Wandering, wondering Outrunning all my previous lives So cleave to me just like a tiny storm A raining and a thundering Coming out of clear blue skies - "All I Know""

"Like any great performer, Rosa pulls you in, and I found myself leaning forward, and really paying attention...but most of all, trying to figure out what the HELL she was saying"

"The genius of Jamie is NOT that she wrote the lyrics on her hands, but that she didn't think we'd notice"

"I learned I'm not the kind of artist that can just sing someone else's songs, for a lot of reasons. I have to have some sort of understanding of the song, or some sort of attachment to it."

"I haven't found it difficult because I find this very enjoyable. It's really challenging. And I'm really proud of the record because it's a really good record. There's nothing harder than to write a pop record with meaning. I think it's much easier to be alternative. It's much easier to be different and take a different path outside of a commercial context. To try and write a pop song that is not cliché, to try and write a pop song that has meaning and fits in under three minutes and five seconds and has a hook that people want to listen to is the most difficult thing in the world to do. So in lieu of that you have to write what you know and what you like, what you're feeling. That's all I can basically do. I don't begrudge the other people that don't write their songs. And I don't judge them. I'd like to see more people writing their own songs, because that's just personally what I like. Just for me, as an artist, so many people only care about being popular right now. Whatever happened to trying to write a song that means something? When I was growing up, artists meant something. They had opinions, they looked different than the person working at the store on your street. They opened your eyes and taught you something about life. And I would like to aspire to be that kind of artist."

"I'm not quite sure that I know how they complement each other, because I use them for the opposite reason. I find music to be an intensely personal kind of thing, perhaps it's because I write a lot of the stuff. I use acting to escape from being me, and I use music to explore being me. I think that's the best way to put it."

"You know that weird cat dance that cats do late at night where they go completely stir-crazy and they run around the apartment and you don't know what the hell they're doing? I often feel like that. I dye my hair constantly because I can't sit still with one hair color. That's a perfect example of trying to satisfy some hunger. I want change; I want constant stimuli. I love to fly because I love the high. All of these are like itch kind of things. Sometimes I need to completely get away. I'll get in the car and I'll drive for as long as I can drive. Sometimes it's a sexual urge. I don't need to explain that; it's pretty self-explanatory. It's a craving, a desire. Sometimes it's food. I'm just a giant, big ol' consumer. I want, I need, I crave, I can't say no. I have no control and I'm a complete control freak. It's just crazy [laughs]."

""The Itch" was an accident. I responded to [co-writer] Billy Steinberg's lyric because I thought even though we set it in this particular story of a girl in a relationship who isn't getting what she needs, it's really a metaphor for desire. Everything just coincided without my realizing it. I was playing Lucy in Dracula 2000, and she's a character who is totally open, sexual and curious and definitely has "The Itch" on many different levels. And it was just coincidence that all this stuff kind of like came together for me. Because I get the itch all the time. And to me that really means something."

"You get treated better [laugh], Being a girl about town is different from being a girl with five guys about town."

"I decided that instead of replacing members of Eve's Plum and keeping it going against some internal and external odds, I would continue doing music, but do it by myself," explains Fitzpatrick. "But it took me a little while because I wasn't sure I was really ready emotionally and mentally to jump back into the fire immediately."

"I'm better suited to doing this because I enjoy dancing and performing, so I can incorporate a whole bunch of different elements of my personality into the performance component of Vitamin C and it turns out, without trying, there was a certain positive spirit and strong point of view [in the songs] that fairly well represented my personality. So it all came together quite nicely."

"It's not as if I went from hardcore punk to four-on-the-floor dance music. I always considered the songs I've written to be intelligent pop songs and perhaps just the production that varies but it's still very much the same voice."

"It was great, I love onions!"

"I don't think the music is all that different, actually. It is produced and presented in a different way. I don't favour one type of music over another. I like music that is melodic, so I like what I am doing now. I haven't abandoned guitars, I am just a little less angry than I was then. I am still proud of Eve's Plum, and I think they could be Vitamin C songs, and some Vitamin C songs could be Eve's Plum songs. I really like this one, it is the best one of all."

""Songs are like flowers / they come up spontaneously / they are like dreams / and we only have to / write them quickly / because then they fade away / and we will not remember them"'"

"Imagine you’re driving On pristine new roads Let’s climb down from trees Emerge from the river Let’s vacate the beaches Of far distant shores Emerge from the blackness Into the blue, blue, blue, blue day."

"Tendencies like these have been reported But no direct link has yet been proven This is how you join two humans."

"And like a falcon spying a dove I swoop down on you death from above And like a panther out in the wood I sneak up on you so light of foot."

"Eyes like yours, always looking for outlines, Eyes like mine, always looking for yours."

"Each of us is special In our own unique way."

""And now that I've arrived here thanks to my dreams / what should I do with reality? / And now that I don't even have my illusions / I don't even care about truth". (from E adesso tocca a me, 2008)"

""Thank Heaven who gave us the woman!" (concert in Florence, june 2005)"

""When you reach the bottom / you'll go up / you'll come up / or you won't come anymore" (from Che cosa c'è, 1985)"

""And life goes on / even without us / who are far by now" (da Anima Fragile, 1980)"

""Yeah, it's me / three different men / one it's not me / the other ones are lost..." (from Senorita, 2004)"