Liz Phair Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
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It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
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All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
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I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.
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I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
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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!
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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.
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There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!
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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.
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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
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Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.
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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.
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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.
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
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I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
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Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.