303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

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.

A certain kind of exhaustion sets in from having to constantly explain and justify one’s existence or participation in an artistic or creative realm.

To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that’s where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

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.

We want our parents to be the norm from which we deviate.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four – if Gang of Four sucked.

They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you’re in the library of rock right now. When.

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There’s kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I’m always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Art communities and music scenes want to pretend like they don’t care, but they will also tell you louder and more frequently than anyone that they DON’T CARE.