Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

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

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I love stretching myself musically.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

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.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

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

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

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.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

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.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Liz Phair
Liz Phair

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?