303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments.

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing about his childhood.

I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with a joke.

I really feel like social media - it's like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it's this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it's like you don't know how to soothe yourself, and I think it's very pernicious.