303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.'

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried to maintain that duality, because I think fandom is a way of being porous and curious, but it did feel like a step forward.

So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.

The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

In the early and mid 1990s, every musician I knew was obsessed with Helium. The 'Pirate Prude' EP and 'Pat's Trick' played on repeat at nearly every gathering I attended. And we didn't just listen to these records - we discussed them, the worlds they opened, novelistic and strange.

In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes; this is the screech of a scar. But Mary Timony was always more kaleidoscope than microscope, creating magical worlds replete with weaponry or sorcery.