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

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.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue

I love stretching myself musically.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

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

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.