I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People… — 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 Absurdity Copy Share Image
I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to… — Carrie Brownstein Absurdity Copy Share Image
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza… — Carrie Brownstein Food Copy Share Image
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in… — Carrie Brownstein Age Copy Share Image
Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it… — Carrie Brownstein Daring Copy Share Image
With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously.… — Carrie Brownstein Comedy Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, whether you've ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a… — Carrie Brownstein Hate Copy Share Image
I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very… — Carrie Brownstein Creative people Copy Share Image
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's… — Carrie Brownstein Affection Copy Share Image
Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once… — Carrie Brownstein Father Copy Share Image
People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce… — Carrie Brownstein Adoration Copy Share Image
I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to… — Carrie Brownstein Attitude Copy Share Image
There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions… — Carrie Brownstein Control Copy Share Image
I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — Carrie Brownstein Challenges Copy Share Image
Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly… — Carrie Brownstein Brainstorm Copy Share Image
Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of… — Carrie Brownstein Always trying Copy Share Image
I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have… — Carrie Brownstein Father Copy Share Image
