Carrie Brownstein

Kissing is kind of scary.

— Carrie Brownstein

I've always felt unclaimed.

— Carrie Brownstein

I need a template of a template

— Carrie Brownstein

I'm a huge Quasi fan.

— Carrie Brownstein

I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.'

— Carrie Brownstein

I loved 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith.

— Carrie Brownstein

I willed myself into being.

— Carrie Brownstein

I don't want to mislead people.

— Carrie Brownstein

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

— Carrie Brownstein

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

— Carrie Brownstein

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

— Carrie Brownstein

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

— Carrie Brownstein

I think my sister loves being an observer more than I do.

— Carrie Brownstein

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

— Carrie Brownstein

Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.

— Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

— Carrie Brownstein

I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

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

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.

— Carrie Brownstein

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

— Carrie Brownstein

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of…

— Carrie Brownstein

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in…

— Carrie Brownstein

In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading…

— Carrie Brownstein

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to…

— Carrie Brownstein

“With access to everything, we can dabble without really knowing. I am not bemoaning a diminishing awareness of references, but it’s easier…

— Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me,…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played…

— Carrie Brownstein

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music…

— Carrie Brownstein

Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or…

— Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons that we are able to actually keep making music that we want to make, and that…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American…

— Carrie Brownstein

[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