Karen O Quotes

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

I was a complete outsider in high school.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.

You have to open up on stage.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.