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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

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Liz Phair
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
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Feelings
Care
Done
Endlessly
Something
Forced
Picture
Listen
Needed

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All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
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I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
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The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.
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I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
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The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue
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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
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You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win
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What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
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It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
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Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
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So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.
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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
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No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.
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