THE ONLY PERSON stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening out the pictures in the room.
--Chrissie Hynde, singer, Interview (July 1999)

"IN OUR CULTURE we are as important as the number of photographs we have of ourselves. If Michael Jackson or President Clinton showed up in your house today, there would be more photographers than personnel. A thousand years from now, an anthropologist could figure out who the important people were in our society just by the number of pictures there were of them. To have no pictures at all is not to have existed."
--Stanley Burns, doctor and photographer, Speak (Summer 1999)

"EVEN THE MOST enlightened people have these sexist assumptions they're working from, like there has to be a man behind the success. There's still the assumption that women are the entertainers, while men are the creators. It's like, 'Wow, that Sheryl Crow record was really cool. Wonder who the producer was. Oh, it's Sheryl Crow?' It's like women can't be given credit for producing their own work."
--Kate Schellenbach, drummer, Girlfriends (July 1999)

"I HIKED UP to the Hollywood sign once and I was so excited. It's an icon and what I thought of as 'Hollywood' when I came. You climb up there and it's so dirty and disgusting. There's a ladder you can climb to get to the top of the O. On the first level, there's all these old bras. You get to the second level and there's nasty, skanky underwear. The third level is used condoms. It's an amazing metaphor for the people. It just keeps getting sleazier. Where's the beauty? Where's the purity?"
--Michelle Williams, actor,Paper (July 1999)

I TELL YOUNG people all the time, 'Make your own decisions based on what you learn. It's all right to say you don't like something, it's all right to say that you do like something, it's even all right to change your opinion. Just know what you're talking about. Know what you like and know what you don't like, but don't feel like you're making a decision based on what you're fed.'
--Chuck D, rapper, Bomb (Summer 1999)