303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

I’m all about being prudent. And I’ve started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

People think that the digital age and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter nurture oversharing, but in 1992 there was nothing stopping me from treating any piece of paper like a personal diary.

I’ve always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

Perhaps this was depression, a murkiness that distorted and disabled connection. I drifted in and out of this darkness, pulled away, then reappeared.

I’ve learned to really enjoy video games. It’s really toxic to have in your house, because it’s really distracting.

Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we’ve lived. To get a sense that we have already journeyed through something – survived it, experienced it – is often so much easier and less messy than the task of currently living through something.

My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins.

I felt that first awareness that there’s a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you’ve never heard – the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.

Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It’s the way of calling things out for what they are, wearing badges. Twitter is like the new Scarlet Letter.