Quotes from Carrie Brownstein

Nutty fans are fine with me, as I have no known nut allergy. In general, though, it's best to carry an EpiPen to deal with outbreaks of fan nuttiness.

I think my sister loves being an observer more than I do.

I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.

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.

I really feel like social media - it's like all these tiny stages that you put yourself on. And you come to rely on these likes and favorites, and it's this applause and this validation that you start to need. Then it's like you don't know how to soothe yourself, and I think it's very pernicious.

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

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.

Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

I have really never aligned myself with hipsterdom or coolness.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

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

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

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'