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" Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am comfortable performing now. I love it! "

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

" 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! "

" I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Anything Is Possible

" Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done. "

" I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror. "

" I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. "

" I just don't fit into the box. "

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