Liz Phair, pop starlet wannabe?I
Liz Phair, pop starlet wannabe?
I didn’t want to be some ’90s act that was great in my 20s and never did anything else. People are like, “don’t be commercial, then. Just be… Wilco.”
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This is my thing: If I make mistakes sometimes, they’ll be my mistakes. My whole career up until now, I let other people make the business decisions. One of the biggest changes for me–which I think is a political act but you may see as a cop-out–is I’ve taken more business control. I’ve educated myself. As a woman who’s basically been cared for by her father and then her husband and then her boyfrend, never really being independent, I think it’s important. I was talking to Pete [Yorn] at a party and he was like, “Well, isn’t it just about the music?” I looked at him and I’m like, “Not for me anymore. It’s not.”
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This is my thing: If I make mistakes sometimes, they’ll be my mistakes. My whole career up until now, I let other people make the business decisions. One of the biggest changes for me–which I think is a political act but you may see as a cop-out–is I’ve taken more business control. I’ve educated myself. As a woman who’s basically been cared for by her father and then her husband and then her boyfrend, never really being independent, I think it’s important. I was talking to Pete [Yorn] at a party and he was like, “Well, isn’t it just about the music?” I looked at him and I’m like, “Not for me anymore. It’s not.”
Liz Phair in Entertainment Weekly, #712, May 30, 2003
Is this what happens when you move to Los Angeles?
