As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
That's so rare in the world of TV or film to have a genuine friendship turn into something that people watch, that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share
