Liz Phair Quotes

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.

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

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

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

I just don't fit into the box.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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