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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 comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

From Carrie Brownstein

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

From Carrie Brownstein

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.

From Carrie Brownstein

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

From Carrie Brownstein

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

From Carrie Brownstein

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

From 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.

From Carrie Brownstein

Well, in some ways I had sort of the opposite experience of other people that are sort of dreaming of being in a rock band. I was dreaming of like corporate lunches and just like, and I'm not really joking. Like the whole idea to me was really appealing.

From Carrie Brownstein

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

From Carrie Brownstein

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.

From Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein

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