1. 'People I know, places I go make me feel tongue-tied.' Hole Catatonia The Sundays The Innocence Mission

2. 'Scar tissue, blood blister, suck up on the dregs sister.' Tori Amos Hole Portishead No Doubt

3. 'For the crown that's placed upon my head feels to heavy now. And I don't know what to say to you but I'll smile anyhow.' The Cranberries Sinead O'Connor The Sundays Dido

4. 'You're so pretty the way you are.' No Doubt Dido Lisa Loeb The Cranberries

5. 'But dreaming is for moonrise and moonrise ails these tired eyes.' Siouxsie and the Banshees Elastica Portishead Catatonia

6. 'And now I speak to you, are you in there? You have her face and her eyes, but you are not her.' Blondie Tori Amos Dido Liz Phair

7. 'Stage lights pump and flicker. Dry lips crack out for more. Come bite on this ragdoll baby. That's right now hit the floor.' Sinead O'Connor Hole Siouxsie and the Banshees Tori Amos

8. 'If the Divine master plan is perfection, maybe next I'll give Judas a try.' P.J. Harvey Catatonia Tori Amos The Sundays

9. 'Nobody loves me, it's true. Not like you do.' Lisa Loeb Portishead The Cranberries Elastica

10. 'I do not want to be a rose. I do not wish to be pale pink, but flower scarlett, flower gold.' Bjork The Sundays The Innocence Mission Natalie Merchant

11. 'And I've learned how to dance from a Vincent Van Gough, and the nights were wrapped in a white sheet.' Elastica Liz Phair Lisa Loeb Hole

12. 'Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart and not need more blood from the tip of your star'. Blondie P.J. Harvey Bjork Tori Amos

13. 'Here we go again, I'm riding in your car. Let me count to ten cos it's gone way too far.' The Sundays No Doubt Elastica Hole

14. 'I've been washing the sand with my salty tears. Searching the shore these long years, and I'll watch the sea forevermore.' Siouxsie and the Banshees The Innocence Mission Catatonia Sinead O'Connor

15. 'All the lillies bloomed and blossomed, wilted and they're shivering. I can't stop their withering oh this world is a war.' The Cranberries Sinead O'Connor Catatonia Hole

16. 'I will never need umbrellas in the rain. I'll wake up in strawberry fields every day.' Tori Amos Dido Natalie Merchant Portishead

17. 'Romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise, Chinese-speaking girlfriend, big brown eyes.' Liz Phair The Sundays Bjork The Innocence Mission

18. 'He keeps you in a box by the bed, alive but just barely.' Hole P.J. Harvey Siouxsie and the Banshees Elastica

19. 'No longer mad like a horse, I'm still wild but not lost from the thing that I've chosen to be.' The Cranberries Lisa Loeb Catatonia Sinead O'Connor

20. 'Victory is empty. There are lessons in defeat.' Tori Amos Blondie Natalie Merchant Catatonia

21. 'You showed me the meadow and Milkwood and Silkwood, and you would if I would, but you never would.' Elastica Tori Amos Siouxsie and the Banshees Portishead

22. 'When my family thinks that I'm safe in my bed, from night until morning I am stretched at your head.' Siouxsie and the Banshees The Cranberries Sinead O'Connor Enya

23. 'I am so dumb. Just beam me up. I've had it all forever. I've had enough.' The Sundays Hole No Doubt Lisa Loeb

24. 'Hearing your voice in the blue light, calming people in the house.' Natalie Merchant The Sundays The Innocence Mission Dido

25. 'Ginger is always sincere, just not to one man.' Blondie Sinead O'Connor Tori Amos Liz Phair