Kristin Hersh's Quotes

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

MP3's are perfect.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.