Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry. — Carrie Brownstein Fashion Copy Share Image
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if… — Carrie Brownstein Curiosity Copy Share Image
Nutty fans are fine with me, as I have no known nut allergy. In general, though, it's best to carry an EpiPen… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways. — Carrie Brownstein Comedy Copy Share Image
I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders. — Carrie Brownstein Cinema 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… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate… — Carrie Brownstein Improvisation Copy Share Image
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're… — Carrie Brownstein Crisis Copy Share Image
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was… — Carrie Brownstein Childhood Copy Share Image
“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the… — Carrie Brownstein Father 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 Animal Copy Share Image
I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Hip hop Copy Share Image
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Kitsch 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that… — Carrie Brownstein Anxiety Copy Share Image
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this was depression, a murkiness that distorted and disabled connection. I drifted in and out of this darkness, pulled away, then… — Carrie Brownstein Darkness Copy Share Image
I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe. — Carrie Brownstein Football Copy Share Image
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations. — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial… — Carrie Brownstein Anxiety 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 Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how… — Carrie Brownstein Life Copy Share Image
To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance… — Carrie Brownstein Beautiful Copy Share Image
![“To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.” quote by Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a1a/carrie-brownstein-1580_beautiful_to-me-that-ugliness-that-grotesqueness-t_1087725.png)