With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We'….

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe..

A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to per….

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and pu….

It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I want to make a record that is a little more….

I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, ….

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world..

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S..

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or….

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered j….

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures ….

I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, ….

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy..

The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of in….

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that..

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it..

I think in some ways, whether you've ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a lot ….

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape..

People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce critical or fan ….

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't ….

I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of ex….