65 Quotes by Kristin Hersh

That’s my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I guess I’ll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

I don’t like the idea of famous people.

I’m beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

My parents didn’t treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn’t do, except be unkind.

We didn’t really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We’re playing too many women right now, we can’t play your record.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It’s as close as I get to a religion.

If you’re the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.