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Carrie Brownstein

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

— Carrie Brownstein relationships

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

— Carrie Brownstein self

The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

— Carrie Brownstein life

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

— Carrie Brownstein time

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

— Carrie Brownstein life

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

— Carrie Brownstein life

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

— Carrie Brownstein art

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

— Carrie Brownstein art

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

— Carrie Brownstein man

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

— Carrie Brownstein music

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein art

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

— Carrie Brownstein live

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

— Carrie Brownstein wit

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

— Carrie Brownstein music

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

— Carrie Brownstein war

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

— Carrie Brownstein people

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

— Carrie Brownstein writing

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

— Carrie Brownstein humor

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

— Carrie Brownstein true

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

— Carrie Brownstein sin

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

— Carrie Brownstein music

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

— Carrie Brownstein love

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

— Carrie Brownstein work

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

— Carrie Brownstein love

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

— Carrie Brownstein music

Im pretty horrible at relationships and havent been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

— Carrie Brownstein relationships

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

— Carrie Brownstein music

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least its feeling. Youre not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

— Carrie Brownstein war

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