Quotes from Kristin Hersh

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

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.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women

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.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.