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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? – Liz Phair
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
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
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
It’s about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them. – Liz Phair
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
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
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
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. – Liz Phair
