Liz Phair Quotes - Page 3

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

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.

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.

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

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

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

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

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.

I love stretching myself musically.

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

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.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

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'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

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

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.

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

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

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.

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