Everything that people lob at you who don’t know you, it all hurts. When you’re doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn’t hurt anyone – I mean, it’s a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. – Liz Phair
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
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
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
I don’t know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know. – Liz Phair
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
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. – Liz Phair
I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I’ll do something different than I did before, it’s that same impulse. – Liz Phair
I’m competitive, so I don’t like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records. – Liz Phair
I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. – Liz Phair
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
Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. – Liz Phair
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
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. – Liz Phair
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