Liz Phair quotes

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

#Two #Unhappy #Trying

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

#Regret #Thinking #Trying

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

#Nice

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
-- Liz Phair

#Wave #Music Is

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

#Art #Trying #Performances

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

#Long #People #Mind

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

#Way #Gains #Used

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

#Anything Is Possible

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

#Xbox #Guy

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.
-- Liz Phair

#People #Looks #Look At Me

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
-- Liz Phair

#Believe #Artist #Thinking

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
-- Liz Phair

#Long #Way

I just don't fit into the box.
-- Liz Phair

#Fit #Boxes

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

#Art #Pain #Mean

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

#Girl #Cat #Doors

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!
-- Liz Phair

#Nice #Would Be #Instinct

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

#Kind #Nervous #Enjoy

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

#Being Yourself #Feminist #Get Away

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

#Mom #Phases #Proud

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

#Bars #Remember #Loud

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

#Dance #Song #Mirrors

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

#Thinking #Creative #Challenges

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

#Records #Firsts #Amazed

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

#Parent

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

#Morning #Son #Green

I love stretching myself musically.
-- Liz Phair

#Stretching

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

#Trying #Like You #Living My Life

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
-- Liz Phair

#Performing

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

#People #Surprise

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

#Mean #Doe #Things Change

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue
-- Liz Phair

#Thinking #Issues #People

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

#Winning #Cds #Play

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable
-- Liz Phair

#Artist #Order #Needs

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

#Different #Crowds

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

#Thinking #Enough #Checks

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
-- Liz Phair

#Song #Cds #Littles

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
-- Liz Phair

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

#People #Style #Identity

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

#Want #Enough #Finding Someone

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
-- Liz Phair

#Love Is

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
-- Liz Phair

#Hunger #Thirst

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.
-- Liz Phair

#Tired #Faces #Sticks

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

#Mean #Want

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

#Creativity #People #Creation

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.
-- Liz Phair

#Thinking #Self #Trying

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

#Writing #Heart #Musical

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
-- Liz Phair

#Skills #Giving #World

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
-- Liz Phair

#Thinking

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

#Art #Impact #Trying

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

#Mean #Thinking #Design

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?
-- Liz Phair

#Character #Views #Feelings

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

#Art #Want #Fame

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
-- Liz Phair

#Perfection #Veneer

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
-- Liz Phair

#Feelings #Done #Care

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.
-- Liz Phair

#Space #Cds #Games

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.
-- Liz Phair

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Blue

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.
-- Liz Phair

#Jobs #Son #Age

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
-- Liz Phair

#People #Records #Feels

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.
-- Liz Phair

#Reading #Insightful #Want

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.
-- Liz Phair

#Summer #Clothes #Rocks

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

#Mean #Kind #Remember

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

#Song #People #Independence

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

#Beautiful #Stupid #Smart

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.
-- Liz Phair

#Artist #Matter #Doe

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

#Men #Feelings #Arguing

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

#Kids #Who I Am #Identity

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.
-- Liz Phair

#People #Anything And Everything #Attention

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

#Beauty #People #Listening

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

#Song #People #Giving