Explore Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

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 think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.

I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.'

Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an older camper would sing after telling us a tale of his hard-knock life. We couldn't get enough of 'One Tin Soldier' or 'Cat's in the Cradle.'

My sister's great. She's very bright; she's very private.

Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was such a strange moment. It made me nervous to watch my mom cook for us and then not engage in the act of eating with us.

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.

'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?

There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion.'

I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.

Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about. We only feel gratefulness and appreciation for other people's enthusiasm about it. We would never be annoyed by that.

Kissing is kind of scary.

Only in retrospect can I find clues to my father's gayness. Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

I think there's a lot of wonderful comics that leave you hanging in a state of apprehension or anxiety before alleviating that tension with a joke.