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" I am comfortable performing now. I love it! "
Liz Phair
Love
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Now
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" My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly. "
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" I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. "
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" 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. "
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" It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them. "
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" Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody. "
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" 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. "
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" Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. "
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" Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. "
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" I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to. "
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" After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press. "
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" When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it! "
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" Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious. "
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