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" Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done. "
Liz Phair
Done
You
Talk
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now. "
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" You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. "
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" You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction. "
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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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" 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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Style
Like
Bedroom
" It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track. "
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You
People
" My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. "
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Long
Off
Disaster
" Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. "
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Women
Need
Barriers
" I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. "
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Playing
Xbox
Like
" 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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My Life
Want
Everyone
" I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious. "
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Loud
Bar
Out
" 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. "
Liz Phair
I Can
Chaos
Always
" I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible. "
Liz Phair
Know
Anything Is Possible
Future
" 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! "
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Trust
Be Nice
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. "
Liz Phair
Live
Age
Care
" I am comfortable performing now. I love it! "
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Love
Performing
Now
" I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. "
Liz Phair
I Was Raised
Housewife
Intelligent
" There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women. "
Liz Phair
Nothing
Wrong
Women
" When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it! "
Liz Phair
Happy
Just
You
" I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. "
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Rock
Finally
Good
" I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. "
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Mirror
Songs
Hip-Hop
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Matters
" 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. "
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Reading
Web
She
" I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art. "
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Women
Young
" I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings. "
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Because
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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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Way
Used
Time