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We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.

Bethany Cosentino

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.
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Fashion Girl Icons
I love clothes so much, I always have. It’s awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.
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Clothes Designer Shows
I’m working all the time. When I’m home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
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Home Trying Writing
I’ve always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.
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Fashion Opportunity Urban
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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Fun Play Thinking
I have personally been affected by women’s reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
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Causes Issues Support
We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.
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Bedroom Song Touring
I don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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Alternatives Female Liz
I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.
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Clothing Lines Steps
I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it’s so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That’s what music has always been for me. It’s been a way to tap out of what’s going on in my personal life.
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Art Reality Thinking
I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
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Girly Sound Voice
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
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Done Fashion Involved
I don’t think lyrics need to be deep – just write whatever comes out of you. You don’t need to find intense meaning in everything.
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Needs Thinking Writing
I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
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Records Song Sound
Touring is definitely work. You’re spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it’s not the easiest thing in the world, but it’s better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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Car People World
It’s scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, “Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?”
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Song Thinking Writing

We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.

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We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.

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