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
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life. — 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
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 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 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'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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
![“To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.” quote by Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1a/carrie-brownstein-1580_beautiful_to-me-that-ugliness-that-grotesqueness-t_1087725.jpg)
![“[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. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these…” quote by Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7b/carrie-brownstein-1580_allergic_i-hate-the-ways-that-people-want-their-s_154917.jpg)