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I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life.
I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.
When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.
I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.
I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.
I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.
I went to a liberal arts college wherein grading was qualitative and we had to write our own evaluations.
For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of it.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.
I want to have a sense of openness and optimism, even if that means being open to things that are potentially dark.
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.
The process of coming out, as much as other people want to couch it in terms of politics, it's a very personal journey.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.
The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.
I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
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.
My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.
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.'
The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.
I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.
Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.
In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.
I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
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.
I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.