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 Copy Share Image
Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here… — Carrie Brownstein 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 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 Copy Share Image
Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful… — 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 Copy Share Image
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it… — 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 Copy Share Image
I've never been in another kind of midlife crisis. I don't know what it feels like when you're through that, but I… — Carrie Brownstein 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 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 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 Image
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 Image
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce. — Carrie Brownstein 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 tension with… — Carrie Brownstein 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 a rock… — Carrie Brownstein 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 crisis or… — Carrie Brownstein 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 them. I… — Carrie Brownstein 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 job forever. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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 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 I don't… — Carrie Brownstein 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 out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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