--- title: "13 Kind Quotes By Carrie Brownstein" description: "13 Kind quotes by Carrie Brownstein. Plus more from Carrie Brownstein and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/carrie-brownstein-1580_kind_kissing-is-kind-of-scary-949342_949342.png" --- > [Kissing is kind of scary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/kissing-is-kind-of-scary/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/carrie-brownstein-1580_kind_kissing-is-kind-of-scary-949342_949342.png) > [I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-got-kind-of-tired-of-playing-i-think-but-i-think-it-will-be-part-of/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2b/carrie-brownstein-1580_football_i-got-kind-of-tired-of-playing-i-think-b_2988020.png) > [I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-m-kind-of-a-hermit-it-s-almost-easier-for-me-to-write-about/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/carrie-brownstein-1580_connection_i-m-kind-of-a-hermit-it-s-almost-easier_1438823.png) > [Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/nothing-is-as-nice-as-plugging-in-your-guitar-and-turning-up-the/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f59/carrie-brownstein-1580_beautiful_nothing-is-as-nice-as-plugging-in-your-g_1213508.png) > [I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-think-one-of-the-scariest-things-about-depression-is-that-it-exists/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/carrie-brownstein-1580_depression_i-think-one-of-the-scariest-things-about_1674356.png) > [I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-would-not-call-myself-an-optimist-even-though-i-would-aspire-to-be/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/693/carrie-brownstein-1580_always-trying_i-would-not-call-myself-an-optimist-even_157115.jpg) > [I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-think-i-was-so-grateful-in-the-years-after-sleater-kinney-broke-up/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/carrie-brownstein-1580_absurdity_i-think-i-was-so-grateful-in-the-years-a_513381.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-ve-never-been-in-another-kind-of-midlife-crisis-i-don-t-know-what/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/carrie-brownstein-1580_crisis_i-ve-never-been-in-another-kind-of-midli_2394996.png) > [I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-m-pretty-horrible-at-relationships-and-haven-t-been-in-many-long/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/carrie-brownstein-1580_autonomy_i-m-pretty-horrible-at-relationships-and_1477631.png) > [Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/wholeness-is-sort-of-a-dubious-concept-because-in-terms-of-the-human/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/carrie-brownstein-1580_alive_wholeness-is-sort-of-a-dubious-concept-b_205105.jpg) > [There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/there-was-this-kind-of-wackiness-that-was-really-embraced-and-put-on/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68f/carrie-brownstein-1580_dream_there-was-this-kind-of-wackiness-that-wa_1197061.png) > [I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-ve-noticed-that-as-someone-who-has-done-music-and-creative-things/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f48/carrie-brownstein-1580_ambitious_i-ve-noticed-that-as-someone-who-has-don_3209054.png) > [Living in Portland, which is a predominantly white city, the privilege and the luxury to be able to obsess over a certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/living-in-portland-which-is-a-predominantly-white-city-the-privilege/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c8/carrie-brownstein-1580_community_living-in-portland-which-is-a-predominan_2002532.png) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Carrie Brownstein > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-am-a-horrible-visual-artist-i-can-t-fix-a-car-sew-knit-cook-etc/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/much-of-the-music-i-remember-from-camp-was-unofficial-the-songs-a/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/rihanna-has-guts-and-she-always-seems-to-be-singing-from-someplace/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-think-there-s-a-lot-of-wonderful-comics-that-leave-you-hanging-in-a/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/well-in-some-ways-i-had-sort-of-the-opposite-experience-of-other/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/there-was-a-clarity-to-the-nineties-it-was-pre-9-11-before-that/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-think-people-would-describe-a-lot-of-sleater-kinney-as-unsettling/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-m-always-trying-to-encourage-people-not-to-limit-themselves-in-the/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/the-game-rock-band-has-been-haunting-me-like-a-bad-ring-tone-it-gets/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-ve-mostly-been-focusing-on-writing-and-i-ve-really-enjoyed-not/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/to-me-curiosity-is-married-to-optimism-and-that-s-where-a-lot-of-my/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [ \[I hate\] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-hate-the-ways-that-people-want-their-special-needs-to-be-met/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/no-matter-what-people-are-struggling-with-or-based-on-whatever/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-would-not-call-myself-an-optimist-even-though-i-would-aspire-to-be/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/i-always-find-that-nostalgia-is-sort-of-like-memory-without-the-pain/) [Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-brownstein/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/carrie-brownstein/#itemlist", "name": "13 Kind Quotes By Carrie Brownstein", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Kissing is kind of scary.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Carrie Brownstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-brownstein/kissing-is-kind-of-scary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/carrie-brownstein-1580_kind_kissing-is-kind-of-scary-949342_949342.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/carrie-brownstein-1580_kind_kissing-is-kind-of-scary-949342_949342.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fa/carrie-brownstein-1580_kind_kissing-is-kind-of-scary-949342_949342.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Kissing is kind of scary.” — Carrie Brownstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I got kind of tired of playing, I think. 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