Bethany Cosentino Quotes

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

It's important to stay creative.

I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done.

I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.

One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense meaning in everything.

There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.