I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

- Annie E. Clark

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

- Annie E. Clark

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so …

- Annie E. Clark

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people,…

- Annie E. Clark

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was e…

- Annie E. Clark

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

- Annie E. Clark

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another…

- Annie E. Clark

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer,…

- Annie E. Clark

I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but i…

- Annie E. Clark