303 Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

I've been trying to immerse myself in the narratives of other people. I try to not isolate myself as much. It is really hard. People that are sensitive, you just feel too porous sometimes. There's this inertia that sets in, and it's hard to get out of bed. I think knowing that other people go through it is really reassuring.

I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.

When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.

I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things.

I willed myself into being.

I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.