My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

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

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.

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

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

I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.