Isn’t it funny? The truth just sounds different. – Penny Lane

I’m telling secrets to the one guy you don’t tell secrets to. – Russell Hammond

Friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong. – Lester Bangs

Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter. – Lester Bangs

It’s not about money and popularity. Although, some money would be nice. But it’s a voice that says, “Here I am… and fuck you if you can’t understand me.” – Jeff Bebe

Lester Bangs: What, are you like the star of your school?

William Miller: They hate me.

Lester Bangs: You’ll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle.

I’m never as good as when you’re there. – Russell Hammond

I always tell the girls, never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously, you never get hurt, you never get hurt, you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends. – Penny Lane

Penny Lane: You’re too sweet for rock and roll.

William Miller: Sweet? Where do you get off? Where do you get sweet? I am dark and mysterious, and *pissed off*! And I could be very dangerous to all of you!

Can you believe these new girls? None of them use birth control and they eat all the steak! – Sapphire

Adolescence is a marketing tool. – Elaine Miller

You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and unmerciful. – Lester Bangs

This song explains why I’m leaving home to become a stewardess. – Anita Miller

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool. – Lester Bangs

They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts. – Sapphire

If something should happen… maybe I never said this enough. I love all of you. – Russell Hammond

Don’t let those swill merchants rewrite you. – Lester Bangs

Just think, any other city in the world and you’d still be a virgin. – Sapphire

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that’s it, that’s all I’m interested in. – Russell Hammond

 Can we just skip the vibe, and go straight to us laughing about this? – Russell Hammond

I’ve made a decision, I’m gonna live in Morocco for one year. I need a new crowd.– Penny Lane

Forgive me father, for I may sin tonight. – Polexia Aphrodisia

This is the circus. Everybody’s trying not to go home. – Russell Hammond

Act One, in which she pretends she doesn’t care about him. Act Two, in which he pretends he doesn’t care her, but he goes right for her. Act Three, in which it all plays out the way she planned it. She’ll eat him alive. – Polexia Aphrodisia

Yes it’s poetry. It’s poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they’re on pot. – Elaine Miller

Music, you know, true music, not just rock ‘n’ roll – it chooses you. It lives in your car, or alone, listening to your headphones – you know, with the vast, scenic bridges and angelic choirs in your brain. – Lester Bangs

Maybe it is love, as much as it can be. – Penny Lane

William Miller: I have to go home.

Penny Lane: You are home.

You look awful, but it’s great. You’re living your life. – Anita Miller