Liz Phair Quotes

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

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.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

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

I love stretching myself musically.

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.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

I just don't fit into the box.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

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.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

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

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.

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

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.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

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

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!

No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

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 don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

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.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

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

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.