Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

I don't want to mislead people.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous.

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.

Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").