There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply scholarly thinking to art and culture. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in… — 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
