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

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" I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. "

" I love stretching myself musically. "

" 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 think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? "

" Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually. "

" I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life! "

" You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. "

" It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming. "

" After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press. "

" Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible. "

Anything Is Possible

" You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. "

" I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform. "

" I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. "

" So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard. "

" I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. "

" My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand. "

" No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them. "

" I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. "

" 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. "

" It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track. "

" I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube. "

" Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined. "