Liz Phair Quotes

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

Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

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.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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 don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

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

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

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.

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

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.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

I just don't fit into the box.

I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

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.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

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

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.