“Girls, they wanna have fun.” —Cyndi Lauper

“Heaven is whenever we can get together, sit down on your floor, and listen to your records” —The Hold Steady

“I want you to want me.” —Cheap Trick

“So good, you won't ever know. I never hear it on the radio.” —Jeff Tweedy

“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.”

—Zadie Smith

“Modern art makes me want to rock out.”

— Art Brut

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

— Voltaire

“Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man—there's your diamond in the rough.”

—Larry David

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

—Amy Poehler

“Peace is always beautiful.”

—Walt Whitman

“Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.”

—Charlie XCX

“The flow pro poetical with skills only a vet'll know.”

—Treach

“Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.”

—Iris Apfel

“Film lovers are sick people."

—Francois Truffaut (possibly apocryphal)

"I drive fast, they call me Jeff Gordon."

—Nelly

"Living is keeping the absurd alive."

—Albert Camus

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

—Sun Tzu

"I don’t have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life, but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it’s neither good or bad. It just is, and what it means to you is what’s your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I’m completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over."

—Bill Russell

“Sometimes to survive, we must become more than we are programmed to be.”

—Roz