Liz Phair

“I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.”

“It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.”

“I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.”

“I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.”

“It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.”

“After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.”

“Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.”

“I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.”

“No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.”

“I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.”

“I love stretching myself musically.”

“I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.”

“My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.”

“I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.”

“I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.”

“Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.”