I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one… — 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… — 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… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me,… — 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
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music… — 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 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 like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or… — 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 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 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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