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" Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic. "

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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. "

Liz Phair

Style

Bedroom

" I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. "

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

" 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. "

" Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous. "

Liz Phair

Dig

Want

" 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 know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. "

Liz Phair

Playing

Xbox

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

" 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. "

" I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I love stretching myself musically. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast. "

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

" 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. "

Liz Phair

People

Everything

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 am comfortable performing now. I love it! "

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