1.
I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
Liz Phair
2.
Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
Liz Phair
3.
It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.
Liz Phair
4.
Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
Liz Phair
5.
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
Liz Phair
6.
I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
Liz Phair
7.
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
Liz Phair
8.
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
Liz Phair
9.
Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.
Liz Phair
10.
Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.
Liz Phair
11.
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
Liz Phair
12.
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.
Liz Phair
13.
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
Liz Phair
14.
I just don't fit into the box.
Liz Phair
15.
And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
Liz Phair
16.
I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.
Liz Phair
17.
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
Liz Phair
18.
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
Liz Phair
19.
I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
Liz Phair
20.
I love stretching myself musically.
Liz Phair
21.
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.
Liz Phair
22.
I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
Liz Phair
23.
I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
Liz Phair
24.
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
25.
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.
Liz Phair
26.
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
Liz Phair
27.
I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
Liz Phair
28.
I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.
Liz Phair
29.
That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
Liz Phair
30.
What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
Liz Phair
31.
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
Liz Phair
32.
I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
Liz Phair
33.
There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.
Liz Phair
34.
I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.
Liz Phair
35.
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
Liz Phair
36.
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
Liz Phair
37.
I am just your ordinary,
average every day sane psycho,
supergoddess.
Liz Phair
38.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
Liz Phair
39.
When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
Liz Phair
40.
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
41.
I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
Liz Phair
42.
I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
Liz Phair
43.
All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
Liz Phair
44.
Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
Liz Phair
45.
I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.
Liz Phair
46.
Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
Liz Phair
47.
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.
Liz Phair
48.
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.
Liz Phair
49.
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.
Liz Phair
50.
I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
Liz Phair
