Kristin Hersh Quotes

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

We don't just have equipment to set up, we have a whole stage set: TVs tuned to static, a busted old Moog synthesizer (also tuned to static - it basically just sits onstage, drooling, like a demented robot friend), an ironing board we use as a percussion stand, lamps (because we prefer mood lighting to rock-show lighting), various car parts and kitchen utensils (for hitting), a movie screen we project slides onto and a pair of mannequin legs in a gold lamé miniskirt with a TV for a torso. All this may sound arty, but really, it's just overenthusiastic.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

And every time a song is done, it whispers, you can go now... you aren't needed anymore.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

MP3's are perfect.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.