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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

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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Fun Sometimes Way
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
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.”
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Artists Empowering People
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
I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.
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Clothing Lines Steps
That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.
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Becoming Daughter Together
I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, “They get it, man. They totally get it.”
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Beach Cat Stupid
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.
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Attention Pay Trying
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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Beach Modern Party
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 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 buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
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Clothes Cute Looks
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
I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
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Ideas Looks Wanted
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 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 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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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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