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" 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. "
Liz Phair
Women
Going
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" 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. "
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" I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. "
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" I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. "
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" 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. "
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" I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse. "
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" 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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" I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. "
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" Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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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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" I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings. "
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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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" I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. "
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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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" Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done. "
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" 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. "
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People
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. "
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" I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. "
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" You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. "
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" It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track. "
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" I just don't fit into the box. "
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" I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them. "
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" 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
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