Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's a terrible place to live.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

I need a template of a template

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

It does feel great to be writing, but the process is sometimes excruciating.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.

I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.