A biography for Liz Phairhasn’t been written yet.
“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 have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.”
“Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.”
“I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.”
“I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.”
“I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.”
“Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.”
“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.”
“Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.”
“Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.”
“I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?”
“I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.”
“Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.”
“I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.”
“All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.”
“Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.”
“I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.”
“I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.”
“I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.”
“I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.”