black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Bethany Cosentino

As artists and creative people it’s such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, “Hey, we’re all going to be okay. We just need to work together.”
BETHANY COSENTINO

Artists Empowering People
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don’t copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Advice Being Giving Yourself
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Needs Thinking Writing
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Girly Sound Voice
Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Fun Sometimes Way
I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Ideas Looks Wanted
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Done Fashion Involved
There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Love Song Weed You
I don’t really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Attention Pay Trying
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?”
BETHANY COSENTINO

Song Thinking Writing
I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Records Song Sound
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Fashion Girl Icons
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Art Reality Thinking
I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Clothing Lines Steps
My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. It’s made up of a bunch of songs that don’t really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Song Sound Together
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.
BETHANY COSENTINO

Car People World

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bethany Cosentino Quotes