Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or… — 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… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have… — 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 Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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'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 grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in… — 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
My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly… — 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
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
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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