Liz Phair Quotes

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

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

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

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.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

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

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.