Kristin Hersh

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. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#allow #arms #could #game #get

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. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#i #interviewing #many #me #now

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

— Kristin Hersh

#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#band #band members #based #bus #chosen

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

— Kristin Hersh

#ask #band #band leader #bar #else

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#allowed #men #people #songs #women

MP3's are perfect. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#perfect

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

— Kristin Hersh

#brother #chant #having #i #meditating

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#except #i #me #parents #treat

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. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#break #constructs #coverage #distorted #extensive