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.

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.

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.

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

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

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