I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it… — 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