I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very… — 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
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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