It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Culture Copy Share Image
I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
'Beasts of the Southern Wild' was one of those films that I felt like I could dismiss because it received so many… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in… — Carrie Brownstein Focus Copy Share Image
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that… — Carrie Brownstein Inspiration Copy Share Image
I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or… — Carrie Brownstein Acoustic guitar Copy Share Image
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me,… — Carrie Brownstein Feelings Copy Share Image
To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way… — Carrie Brownstein Anxiety Copy Share Image
In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“With access to everything, we can dabble without really knowing. I am not bemoaning a diminishing awareness of references, but it’s easier… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain… — Carrie Brownstein Community 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 Joy Copy Share Image
It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I… — Carrie Brownstein Artist 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 Dream Copy Share Image
I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your… — Carrie Brownstein Ambitious Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Contemporary life Copy Share Image
It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss. — Carrie Brownstein Boss Copy Share Image
There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion.' — Carrie Brownstein Connotations Copy Share Image
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that. — Carrie Brownstein Chaos Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one… — Carrie Brownstein Always trying Copy Share Image
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
