Liz Phair

“It's cool to be in a band, but you're not a musician unless you can play an instrument and write your own songs.”

“Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.”

“I want to be a rock star, not a fun-fur cover girl.”

“The whole point of 'Exile in Guyville' was that it was a girl's answer to a boy's world.”

“I tend to write about relationships, the mystery of them.”

“I've always been a very sexual person. I'm a very physical person.”

“You have to be willing to be a fool to get anything done.”

“I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you like something, you like it.”

“Fame is a weird thing. You have to be very careful with it.”

“The best thing about being a woman is the ability to be a chameleon.”

“I think it's important to be a little bit of a rebel.”

“Songwriting is like a therapy.”

“You have to be true to yourself. That's the most important thing.”

“It's hard to be a woman in rock. It's a man's world.”

“I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, to change our lives.”

“My life is a soap opera.”

“I find that the most interesting thing in the world is other people.”

“I was always an outsider. I've always felt like I was on the outside looking in.”

“I'm not interested in being a role model. I'm interested in being a person.”

“My sound is a combination of the raw and the refined.”