Carrie Brownstein Quotes
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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.
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I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
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I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.
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I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
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I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.
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I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.
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People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.
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I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.
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I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.
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I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.
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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.
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I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.
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Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend.
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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
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Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
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I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.
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Florida is such an unlikely place for a band, unless you're an emo or hardcore band. In terms of the touring route, or even the way the geography works in terms of bands and communities, Florida's always been this appendage that you either cut it off and dismiss it, or you somehow include it in your scope.
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I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
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To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off.
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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.
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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.
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I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.
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I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
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When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.