I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs… — 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 think that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I… — 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 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
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — 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 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 don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about… — 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
When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start… — 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
There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect… — 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 grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, whether you've ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow… — 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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