I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein Comedy Copy Share Image
I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself. — Carrie Brownstein About yourself Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs… — Carrie Brownstein Care Copy Share Image
I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark. — Carrie Brownstein Being Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Acrimony Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. — Carrie Brownstein Music Copy Share Image
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so… — Carrie Brownstein Actor Copy Share Image
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to… — Carrie Brownstein Age Copy Share Image
Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about.… — Carrie Brownstein Appreciation Copy Share Image
After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Book Copy Share Image
I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk… — Carrie Brownstein Indie rock Copy Share Image
I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and… — Carrie Brownstein Battle Copy Share Image
What I appreciate about Sleater-Kinney is that we did six records, and they all felt different. It was a band that was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to… — Carrie Brownstein Authenticity Copy Share Image
A lot of music for me was about - I mean, aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really… — Carrie Brownstein Being real Copy Share Image
From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of… — Carrie Brownstein Ashes Copy Share Image
When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. — Carrie Brownstein Connection Copy Share Image
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get. — Carrie Brownstein Music Copy Share Image
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from. — Carrie Brownstein Brain Copy Share Image
I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing… — Carrie Brownstein Childhood Copy Share Image
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like… — Carrie Brownstein Audience Copy Share Image
I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue. — Carrie Brownstein Childhood Copy Share Image
My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes… — Carrie Brownstein Brain Copy Share Image
I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be… — Carrie Brownstein Binary Copy Share Image
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option. — Carrie Brownstein Career Copy Share Image
