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" Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity. "
Me
Curiosity
Negativity
" From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two. "
Ashes
Afraid
Love
" Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. "
Allowance
Feeling
Grief
" I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask in that, and I think it can be deceptively comforting. "
Think
Pain
Good
" I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature. "
Live
Life
Focus
" I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things. "
Struggle
Battle
Power
" I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness. "
Never
Really
Aligned
" 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. "
Minds
Work
Way
" I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous. "
Pretty
Love
Autonomous
" I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.' "
Bachelor
Fan
Big Fan
" I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to call it, to find 'Portlandia' and co-create 'Portlandia' with Fred Armisen, which allows for levity, allows for the same kind of kinetic energy, but channeled through absurdity and surrealism. "
Energy
You
Think
" I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. "
Think
Strange
Sometimes
" I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over. "
Over
Music
High School
" I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself. "
Find
Will
You
" Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an older camper would sing after telling us a tale of his hard-knock life. We couldn't get enough of 'One Tin Soldier' or 'Cat's in the Cradle.' "
Life
Guitar
Music
" My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food. "
Down
Relationship
Myself
" One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue. "
Me
Father
Childhood
" Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. "
Words
Living
Feeling
" Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty. "
Band
Different
Steps
" So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love. "
Through
Things
Love
" So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it. "
Much
Way
Voice
" The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. "
Rock
Me
Love
" There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion.' "
Horrible
Some
Word
" There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen. "
Forward
Better
Anxiety
" When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs. "
Space
Audience
Band
" With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song. "
Play
You
Song
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