Quotes from Liz Phair

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

I just don't fit into the box.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!