Karen O Quotes

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

I’m not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

It’s almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul.
Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self possessed.
Was this recorded this century? Or out of a basement that’s she’s been imprisoned all her
life? Time to set her loose on the world. I’m so happy she exists. Set me free Mary!

I’m not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

I feel like there’s a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we’ve been living.

Bands that I’ve loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

You have to open up on stage.

I’m making sure to cover all the bases. Like, I’ve always wanted a leather jacket like Michael Jackson’s in “Thriller” since I was a kid. I’m trying to incorporate a lot of elements of pop culture that I’ve always revered or was really into when I was young.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

I’m in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it’s with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it’s to stay awake, either way it’s much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.