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" The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue. "

Liz Phair

Done

Music

Think

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Xbox

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

" I love stretching myself musically. "

" 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? "

" 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 blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. "

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

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Parents

Parent

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

" My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. "

" I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records. "

Liz Phair

Feel

Sell

" 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. "

" I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings. "

" 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

" I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. "

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

" 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. "

" When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it! "

" I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them. "

" 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. "

" 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

" You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. "

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

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

" 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. "