303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don’t wish smallness for anyone. It’s a terrible place to live.

I’ve never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn – that’s the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can’t merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

In these cases, fandom is contextual and experiential: it’s not that it happened, it’s that you were there.

It’s hard to express how profound it is to have your experience broadcast back to you for the first time, how shocking it feels to be acknowledged, as if your own sense of realness had only existed before as a concept.

Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited;.

I think in some ways, whether you’ve ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a lot of people are sort of striving for that now. Or they’re hating on it.

You can’t bury a part of yourself that’s so innate to who you’ve been, even if it’s not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

Sometimes I think that the best you can ever feel in a photo shoot is like a sexy clown.