DOUBLE MONKEES ASCENDING

Random samplings from Ian Van Tuyl's ticklingly insightful POPSTROLOGY: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF READING THE POP STARS (Bloomsbury USA):

MARY WELLS
You can rage against the machine, or you can walk away before your arms get caught in the gears.
...No matter how much you serve the institution, and no matter how much it seems to serve you, institutions will serves themselves first, even if it costs them your loyalty.

JAN AND DEAN
Yours is a voice that may yet change history, as long as someone else tells you what to say with it.

WHAM!
There may be no I in "team," but there's definitely an "m" and an "e."

YES
You are the smooth little acorn that falls from an old and twisted oak.
...And so, though it would be going too far to call you the simple-minded product of an intellectual bloodline, it is true that unpretentiousness and accessibility are not entirely out of your reach.

JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
Beneath your tough exterior lies, well, an even tougher interior.