With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously.… — Carrie Brownstein Comedy Copy Share Image
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it… — Carrie Brownstein Daring 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 Creative people 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 Affection 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 Hate 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 Father Copy Share Image
People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce… — Carrie Brownstein Adoration 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 Art Copy Share Image
I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance… — Carrie Brownstein Beautiful 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 that the intentions are genuine in the search for authenticity, but it can tip over into absurdity so quickly. I… — Carrie Brownstein Absurdity Copy Share Image
I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to… — Carrie Brownstein Absurdity Copy Share Image
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 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the… — Carrie Brownstein Father Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Animal Copy Share Image
At its core, kitsch feels like something less than art; it panders to the middle and is flagrantly anti-art, though it often… — Carrie Brownstein Art Copy Share Image
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
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 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
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — 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… — Carrie Brownstein Anxiety Copy Share Image
![“To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.” quote by Carrie Brownstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1a/carrie-brownstein-1580_beautiful_to-me-that-ugliness-that-grotesqueness-t_1087725.png)
