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" No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them. "
Liz Phair
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" I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through. "
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" I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform. "
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" I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. "
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" I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have. "
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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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" My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. "
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