Quotes from Kristin Hersh

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

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

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

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

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

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

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

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

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

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 don't like the idea of famous people.

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.

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