Liz Phair People Quotations

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

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

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.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

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.

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.

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

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

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.

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

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.

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.