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" Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves. "

Liz Phair

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Liz Phair

Feel

Sell

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

" I just don't fit into the box. "

" I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious. "

" That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win. "

Liz Phair

Quiet

Win

" 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. "

Liz Phair

Style

Bedroom

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once. "

" 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 just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. "

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

" I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. "

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

Liz Phair

Parents

Parent

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

" I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to. "

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

" 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 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. "

Liz Phair

Anything

Look

" 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 don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to. "

" I am comfortable performing now. I love it! "

" I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment? "

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