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I'm such a big fan of 'The Bachelor.'

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I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.

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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.

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I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things.

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My father was a corporate lawyer. He went to work in a suit and tie. He had a secretary. He left the house before seven A.M. His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.

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There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion.'

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The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.

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I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.

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For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

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My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.

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

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When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.

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It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

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When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

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I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

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From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two.

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To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

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In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.

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I think that the most well-intentioned, optimistic, creative people often live for the moment, and for 'Portlandia,' our goals were always very sort of short-term and attainable.

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To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

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I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.

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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.

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I don't think I realized right away that I was switching from being a fan into being a performer. I've always tried to maintain that duality, because I think fandom is a way of being porous and curious, but it did feel like a step forward.

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My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

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Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life.

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From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

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Kissing is kind of scary.

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My father was hard to know and gave little indication that there was much to know. He claimed he remembered almost nothing about his childhood.

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Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about. We only feel gratefulness and appreciation for other people's enthusiasm about it. We would never be annoyed by that.

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I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers.

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I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a little more fluid than that.

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So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.

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When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.

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I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.

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Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.

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I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.

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