Okay, here are the answers. Sorry that the list was so unfocused...next time it will be better.
1. "Behind the boathouse, I'll show you my dark secrets."
"Possum Kingdom" -- The Toadies
2. "I love anonymity and I love being noticed."
"The Ballad of San Francisco" -- Caedmon's Call
3. "She sang in a key that we all loved, and then she changed it to a minor."
"Motor" -- Alex Phan (a friend of mine that has the potential to be HUGELY popular someday)
4. "I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, one who will take me for myself."
"Hard Headed Woman" -- Cat Stevens
5. "Someday in the midst of time, when they ask me if I knew you, I'd smile and say you were a friend of mine."
"Old and Wise" -- Alan Parsons Project
6. "I'm gonna take this sack of puppies, gonna set it out to freeze."
"The Devil's Workday" -- Modest Mouse
7. "I am the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria."
"Sleep Now in the Fire" -- Rage Against the Machine"
8. "There's not and is a screen, that's not and is a sight."
"My Body" -- Me
9. "I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes, I have to turn my head until my darkness goes."
"Paint it Black" -- The Rolling Stones
10. "Show me the power child, I'd like to say, that I'm down on my knees today."
"Outshined" -- Soundgarden
11. "Fool enough to almost be it, cool enough to not quite see it."
"Mayonaise" -- Smashing Pumpkins