Top 28 Quotes by Kristin Hersh

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

I don't like the idea of famous people.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

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.

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.

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 like what the radio plays for the most part.

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

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

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