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Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974) is an American musician, model, writer, actress, director, and comedian. She first came to prominence as a member of the band Excuse 17 before forming the punk-indie trio Sleater-Kinney. During a long hiatus from Sleater-Kinney, she formed the group Wild Flag. During this period, Brownstein wrote and appeared in a series of comedy sketches with Fred Armisen which were then developed into Emmy and Peabody Award-winning satirical comedy TV series Portlandia. Sleater-Kinney has since reunited, and as of 2015, Brownstein was touring with the band as well as in support of her new memoir.

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I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

Fancy, Fancy Cars, Giant, Giants, Meals, Money

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Loneliness, Moment, Music, Somebody, Underestimate, Way

I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

Cgi, Green, Prepared, Should, Thinking, Times

I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as it's ever been, for many, many people, and the amount of physical exertion, for most people, is less than it's ever been. I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.

Meaningful, Modern, People, Struggle, Thinking

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Drawn, Natural, Process, Realness

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

Beautiful, Guitar, Loud, Nice, Noise, Plugging

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Different, Divorce, Loves, Pursue, Writing

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Camp, Classes, Drama, Kids, Summer, Summers

I think in some ways, whether you've ever actually been to Portland, people definitely understand this highly curated niche lifestyle, because a lot of people are sort of striving for that now. Or they're hating on it.

Actually, Curated, Hate, Hating, People, Thinking

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Hip Hop, Humor, Oddities, Oddity, Passion, Value

There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

Avoid, Crash, Gives, Giving, Sugar

"We can't name it, but we can sing along. " That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Art, Form, Music, Name, Names, Relationship

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Feels, Incrementally, Like, Strive, Take, Things

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

Care, Cares, Enemy, Opinion, Statement, Way

It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I want to make a record that is a little more unsettling and maybe isn't as easily understood now. " That just seemed more important, like, for me to make as an artist, than it was to make something to make people feel safe right away.

Artist, Important, Make, People, Record, Rock

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Intention, Okay, Portlandia, Seriously, Sometimes, Thinking

People give the words life through their own adoration or relationship to the work, and that's true of everything. You can't divorce critical or fan reaction. Once it exists, you forget that the words are arbitrary, or you start to remove value.

Arbitrary, Divorce, Giving, People, True, Value

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

Coffee, Energy, Espresso, Midday

I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an "anti-ambition. " Like, an awareness, and then a subsequent guilt. But sometimes that progressive, liberal guilt is really obnoxious, too - in some ways, I think it's better to just own it. It's weird, that actually, the acknowledgement of privilege or the enactment of guilt can be as obnoxious as anything else. It's a never-ending rabbit hole. We're really in a rabbit hole right now, with this conversation. We're just spiraling down into the void.

Culture, Guilt, Subsequent, Think, Thinking, Void

I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.

Cynical, Hours, Listening, Playing, Seek, Strictly

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