Liz Phair Quotes

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

I love stretching myself musically.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.