Kristin Hersh

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

— Kristin Hersh

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

— Kristin Hersh

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

— Kristin Hersh

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

— Kristin Hersh

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

— Kristin Hersh

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs…

— Kristin Hersh

MP3's are perfect.

— Kristin Hersh

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

— Kristin Hersh

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike…

— Kristin Hersh

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't…

— Kristin Hersh

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

— Kristin Hersh

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

— Kristin Hersh

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

— Kristin Hersh

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are…

— Kristin Hersh

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say,…

— Kristin Hersh

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

— Kristin Hersh

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

— Kristin Hersh

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

— Kristin Hersh

I don't like the idea of famous people.

— Kristin Hersh

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

— Kristin Hersh

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on…

— Kristin Hersh

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

— Kristin Hersh

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

— Kristin Hersh

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

— Kristin Hersh

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

— Kristin Hersh