Waxing my lyrical

*** Since I made changes to the format after posting, I think we'll call this one a practice. Exxy wins with 7 correct and an extra point for the Johnny Depp connection.

Name the Author, Artist or Song...

1) When their eloquence escapes you/
Their logic ties you up and rapes you.
Artist/Author: The Police / Sting (Exxy got)
Song: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Amanda got)

2) Billy Mac is a detective down in Texas/
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is.
Artist/Author: Steve Miller (Exxy got)
Song: Take The Money And Run (Illidge)

3) He moved to Hollywood, got a tattoo/
He met a girl out there with the tattoo too.
Artist/Author: Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne (Exxy)
Song: Into The Great Wide Open (Exxy)

4) They took all the trees, put ‘em in a tree museum/
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em.
Artist/Author: Joni Mitchell (Exxy)
Song: Big Yellow Taxi (Amanda)

5) The band is just fantastic/
that is really what I think./
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
Artist/Author: Pink Floyd / Waters (Exxy)
Song: Have A Cigar (Exxy)

Harder:

6) Growing up in a biosphere, no respect for bad weather/
There’s still roaches and ants in here, so resourceful and clever.
Artist/Author: The Tragically Hip / Downey
Song: Titanic Terrarium

7) I’m going home, I’m tired as hell/
I’m not the cat I used to be/
I got a kid, I’m thirty-three.
Artist/Author: The Pretenders / Hinde
Song: Middle of the Road

8) I'm interesting, the best thing since wrestling/
Infesting in your kids ears and nesting.
Artist/Author: Eminem / Mathers (Amanda)
Song: Without Me

9) The searchers all say they’d have made Whitefish bay
If they’d fifteen more miles behind her.
Artist/Author: Gordon Lightfoot
Song: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

10) You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice/
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Artist/Author: RUSH / Peart (Illidge)
Song: Freewill