"There's an ache in every corner of the heart for the ones who are miles away." - Peter Mulvey

"I believe this coast is killing me. If I didn't dream, I'd be dead." - Peter Mulvey

"And then I tell you, 'You know honey, love doesn't know distance.' And you turn around and look and me and say, 'Yeah, but my arms do.' " - Melissa Ferrick

"With a white knuckle grip on the center of your soul...I have the same grip on your heart." - Peter Mulvey

"I tend to focus on the darker side...I forget there ever was light." - Edie Carey

"How could you do nothing...and say 'I'm doing my best'?" - Ani DiFranco

"Is simplicity best...or simply the easiest?" - Depeche Mode

"The world owes me nothing...and we owe each other the world." - Ani DiFranco

"I've got the strength to move but...why should I?"-Letters to Cleo

"Everybody's trying not to be just like everybody, and I don't want to be like that." - Jim's Big Ego

"Sometimes life on life's terms means that I do not get to win"-Melissa Ferrick

"When night falls, it scrapes its knees"-Sarah Slean

"Without hope you cannot start the day"-Yes

"Help me to learn songs of joy instead of "burn, baby, burn." - Paul McCartney

"Once again I play midwife to my dreams...and I'm...also moaning on the table." - Peter Mulvey

"'Cause I was taught that love grows...so why does it always seem to fade on me?" - Melissa Ferrick

"If beauty is ugly...then ugliness is king." - Janis Ian

"It's like when you're swimming in the ocean...and the bottom becomes the top...and you don't realize that the whole time...you have been swimming down for air."- Melissa Ferrick

"I lose my heart without looking down, they could be Sarah, Chloe, or Clyde...and I suspect the question's been going around as to whether I'll ever decide." - Edie Carey

"...I'll never be a woman of extremes...I've never been the worst, and I'll never be the best...but that'll never stop me or my dreams." - Edie Carey

"She's recruiting sympathy like it's an army..as the front lines fall she brings new lines up." - Martina Sorbara

"Last night your shoulder bare and warm beneath my hand...oh I love you, breath and bone" - Peter Mulvey (possibly inaccurate, hit me live and I scrambled to write it down.)

"And I make a really good lover when there's a clear path to the door...Make a really good listener when I can't talk no more... I make a really good friend when there's an end in sight... I make a really good wrong to your right" - Kris Delmhorst

"She's a summer storm, and I'm a hurricane...one just blows through town..one blows the town away" - Fred Eaglesmith

"And I know it's hard to know the truth...so we live with points of view." - Mary Gauthier

"Well, I know I'm not beautiful and I'll never be tall and thin. But these things mean so much when you feel with your eyes and not from within." - Lori McKenna

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'Welcome' written on it." - XTC

"What's the sense in being so sensitive? Can I trade this thin skin for a shell?" - Sarah Harmer

"Faith has no weight....Doubt, now there's the burden"-Ellis Paul

"We leave the cursed city the same way we come in...we trace the roads...on the way out we shed our certainties like clothes ." - Peter Mulvey

"Changes aren't permanent, but change is." - Rush

"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger...I'm not dead yet so I must be stronger" - The Nields

"You can't tell your heart how to feel...you can only get out of the way." - Melissa Ferrick

"When your dream comes true...you're out one dream." - The Nields

"You take the weight of a heavy notion and I'll take the weight from coast to ocean. And that's why the ride is light, it's all right" - Letters to Cleo

"The hardest words are spoken softly." - This Mortal Coil

"I make a really bad clothesline so don't pin your hopes on me" - Kris Delmhorst.

"If fashion is your trade...then when you're naked...I guess you must be unemployed." - Pulp

"But the truth is I can no more stop dreaming than I can make them all come true." - Cry Cry Cry (yes, I know it's a cover)

"I scratch yours and you stab mine." - Danny Michel

"Maybe we're only as sick as our secrets, and maybe our secrets are all that we own." - Peter Mulvey

"There is no mystery to be revealed...and so we tell the truth and then run." - The Story

"Your heart is the big box of paints, and others the canvas were dealt." - XTC

"It's better to have fallen in love than never to have fallen at all." - Dar Williams

"I was reading on the bathroom wall...'tomorrow has been cancelled due to lack of interest.' " - Pamela Means

"Dreams are like water...colorless...and dangerous." - This Mortal Coil

"I've had enough thunder and mortar...and tragedy" - Peter Mulvey

"Pray your gods who hold you by your fear...for they are quick and ruthless punishers." - Toad the Wet Sprocket

"There's no such thing as an atheist on the 32nd floor." - Eddie From Ohio"

"True revolutionaries never bomb buildings." - Dan Bern

"Without silence, words lose their meaning and without listening, the speaking cannot heal." - Christopher Williams

"Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it. And man converted the newspaper to a blanket. Well you have to admit that he's come a long way since swinging about in the trees." - XTC

"The highway takes its toll, the green light flashes go...it's welcome to Ohio" - Richard Shindell

"And now we count the ways to leave the burning sameness of these days." - Jennifer Kimball

"If you got something to talk about, why don't you raise your voice?" - Pamela Means

"And I am not as strong as the days are long" - Tory Cassis

"You can't kill hope with a gun." - The Kennedys

"I'm long on good intentions, I've got zero tolerance for pain." - Peter Mulvey

"And after it rains there's a rainbow...and all of the colors are black. It's not that the colors aren't there..it's just imagination they lack." - Paul Simon

"A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle" - Oingo Boingo

"What kind of people make a city where you can't see the sky and you can't feel the ground?" - Dar Williams

"Too many people think they're misunderstood every time somebody disagrees with them." - Jess Klein

"Out here it's so quiet, you can hear your heart talking. If by chance it tells you which way to go...start walking." - Peter Mulvey

"I saw men with dreams like the ones I'd had beg for quarters outside the 7-11 'til it got so they didn't affect me any more than the mailboxes I passed. Except sometimes I put something in the mailbox." - Dan Bern

"Gone are the days of the hero, there's nothing left but the one and the zero, and which one are you?" - Peter Mulvey

"There is no currency in good intentions." - Christopher Williams

"A wise man once said 'I'm not an optimist, but I am a prisoner of hope.' " - Jess Klein

"This little town fights the end of the day by throwing light into the sky." - Christopher Williams

"Back in your old yard, the tree from your childhood is thinking about you...shivers a sigh." - Peter Mulvey

"If I were a baker, I'd bake a loaf of bread. But all I need sustaining me is the world inside my head." - Pamela Means

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn

"Some people think I'm neurotic and all, but I'm not. I just like to think about things over and over and over and over again." - Eddie From Ohio

"You are a highway with no exits...they say she drove all over you." - Jennifer Kimball

"Tell me I'm the one you've been waiting for all your life." - Melissa Ferrick

"It's a man's world, but a woman put him in it...and the hand that rocks the cradle is the mother of us all." - Patty Larkin

"And I don't know whether I believe in me, but I still believe in my friends." - The Nields

"Maybe brutal truth will win out over kindness in the blink of an eye." - Peter Mulvey

"A word like 'tomorrow' wears things out. It's hard enough to get what's yours for now." - This Mortal Coil

"My stomach's waging war with me, scars resemble memory." - Pamela Means