Curtis: "I prefer to think of everyone as an individual."

Curtis: "I like to think that [Joy Division doesn't] belong to any category."

Curtis: "If I'm listening to music it tends to be the persons attitude towards the music they're making that influences me more than the actual music that's played." 

Michael Sweeney: "He was kind, intelligent and someone with real feelings." 

Len Brown: "Tributes paint Curtis as a lost prophet; as [someone] more sensitive, braver, and perhaps closer to God or godlessness than the rest of us; as if he'd held up his cracked mirror to show us how hopeless, meaningless and inhuman our world had become."

Amos: "I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it."

Amos: "When you're growing up ... having an imagination is not really encouraged. ... Most [adults] have cut out that part of themselves that still imagines ... more than just [what is] functional. ... [A purely functional life] is not living, that’s being dead."

Amos: "All the problems start at the individual level. ... It all goes back to dealing with yourself. Because when you do, your needs change. ... You call different things to you."

Amos: "I have many sides. ... It’s finding a balance with all these different sides of myself. I kind of invite 'em over for a plate of spaghetti. Have 'em all at the table."

Trent Reznor: "Tori Amos ... I always respected her work a lot." 

Apple: "It brings a certain satisfaction to write down what you have inside and music is the vehicle for that." 

Apple: "I pay attention a lot to how I feel about things and when you pay attention to how you feel [and] think about things ... you learn a lot about yourself and when you know yourself, you know a lot." 

Apple: “[I didn’t like the fact that representatives from Sony music wanted to okay my tracks because] then they’re in on the songwriting. And if I start letting that happen, then I’m dead!” 

Rolling Stone: "Fiona Apple has curious, intense faith in the truth. In her music, she believes that if she is [not] honest [then] what she creates cannot be without worth."

Morrissey: "Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life!"  

Morrissey: "I'm lying in my bed and I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me."   

Morrissey: "Sexual terms just segregate people, it's all monotonous and an insult to their individuality." 

Morrissey: "Everything I am was conceived in [my] room. Everything that makes me is in there."  

The Face: "[He spent] years of teenage trauma and monastic introversion, alone in his room with the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde." 

Yorke: "The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to."      

Yorke: "The West cannot shake its need to control the rest of the planet in any way it can. They cannot shake off this colonial attitude."      

 

Yorke: "The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. ... In a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses."

 

Yorke: "I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape."

Jonny Greenwood: "One of the things that’s so good about him is that he’s a performer with emotional convictions.”

Reznor: "I am [sometimes] written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm [really] shy and don't know what to say."

Reznor: "When I did ['Head Like a Hole'] that was how I felt in my head. When I did 'Downward Spiral' that is where I was for that. I try not to be too concerned about ... what [people] are expecting from me."

[Interviewer: "What is the significance of the name 'Nine Inch Nails?'"]
Reznor: "[It] just kinda popped into my head. Two weeks later I still liked it, so we just went with it. As far as any significance, I just like it because it looked good in print." 

Reznor: "Music ... that inspire emotional connections are so much more important to me than things that only have utilitarian ends."

Bowie: "My music [expresses how I feel] for me. There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along."

Bowie: "I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things."

Bowie: "[My music has] always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

Bowie: "The majority of the stuff that I do is totally ... about where I am physically and mentally at any moment in time and I have a far harder time than anybody else explaining it and analyzing it." 

Lady Gaga: "How I love David Bowie!"

Hepburn: "I think life is all about ... children and flowers."

Hepburn: "I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."

Hepburn: "I've [always] followed my instincts and they've brought me nothing but blessings and good fortune and terribly kind people to work with."

Hepburn: "I never liked words very much, I don't deal with them very well. I love music, I love dancing because you could do it all to music which sort of takes you out of yourself." 

Sophia Loren: "Audrey was meek, gentle and ethereal, understated both in her life and in her work. She walked among us with a light pace, as if she didn't want to be noticed."

DiCaprio: "I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention. ... I'd do little unexpected performances."

DiCaprio: "School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."

DiCaprio: "I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends ... but I just can't."

DiCaprio: "I kind of am an energetic person. ... [When I was younger] I was just running, constantly doing things. ... I still have a lot of energy."

DiCaprio: "[When choosing a movie I want to be in] ultimately I read a script and I say, 'Woah, I am emotionally engaged in this.' I never think about the subject matter [or] what it means historically."

DiCaprio: "I take it as it comes. ... I don't try to determine what the future will be, I take it day by day."

Stefani: “I’m into having a good time and entertaining people.”

Stefani: "Every night's different. You can't tell if it's gonna be a good show or a bad show. That's what's kind of exciting, I guess, about it. You never know, [you just] get up there [on stage] and see what happens."

Stefani: "I don't have a plan; it's been basically chasing dangling carrots everywhere I look.”

Stefani: “I always hate talking about fashion. … To me, fashion is something you don't talk about, it's something you do. [And something] you wear and you look at."

Stefani: "No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it."

USA Today: "[She has] youthful enthusiasm [and] breathless energy."