Quotes from Liz Phair

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.