When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes …

- Caroline Polachek

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

- Caroline Polachek

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

- Caroline Polachek

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hea…

- Caroline Polachek

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

- Caroline Polachek

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

- Caroline Polachek

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

- Caroline Polachek

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stac…

- Caroline Polachek

Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who ca…

- Caroline Polachek