Carrie Brownstein

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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

— Carrie Brownstein

I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that…

— Carrie Brownstein

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in…

— Carrie Brownstein

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial…

— Carrie Brownstein

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

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

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces…

— Carrie Brownstein

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but…

— 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

[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

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone.…

— Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of…

— Carrie Brownstein

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind…

— 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

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here…

— Carrie Brownstein

My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza…

— Carrie Brownstein

I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.

— 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

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

— Carrie Brownstein

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

— Carrie Brownstein

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Despite my lack of sophistication or maturity, I was headstrong. My sense of possibility and certainty made me focused. I had blinders…

— Carrie Brownstein