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Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

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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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Thing
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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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It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
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I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
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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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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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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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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
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I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.
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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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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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When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.
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Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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