Sleater-kinney Quotes

I think the B-52's were a huge influence on Sleater-Kinney. The way that there'd be a really interesting guitar line that'd be really melodic and kind of simplistic, I really related to that. The sense of melody is really intense and fun. It's not just traditional song structures, but it's very melodic and draws you in, in kind of an immediate way.

I liken Sleater-Kinney to a freight train. It felt like this incredible, forward-moving, powerful energy.

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

Sleater-Kinney is a band that we hold close to our hearts as well; it's not something that we're cynical or jaded about. We only feel gratefulness and appreciation for other people's enthusiasm about it. We would never be annoyed by that.

I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college.

I think people would describe a lot of Sleater-Kinney as unsettling. And I don't think our best moments have sonic assonance to them. I think that we are best with a little bit of... a caustic attitude and tone.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.