Top 40 Liz Phair Quotes

I’m always champing at the bit to try everything new. It’s a terrible quality that I have.

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

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.

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

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

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.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.

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.

It makes sense – you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I’ve lived there. It’s an entirely different beast.

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

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.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I don’t think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

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

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

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

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.

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.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time.

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

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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

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.

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

I love stretching myself musically.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

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.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

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.

When you love what you do, you’re happy just doing it!

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

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

I’m just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I’m hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.

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

There’s nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

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.

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!

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.

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.