Carrie brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to...

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as...

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.