Liz Phair Art Quotations

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

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.

I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

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.

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

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

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

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

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.