Karen O Quotes & Sayings

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. — Karen O

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. — Karen O

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them. — Karen O

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible. — Karen O

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. — Karen O

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. — Karen O

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it. — Karen O

Sophomore records are historically really difficult. — Karen O

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! — Karen O

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys. — Karen O

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career. — Karen O

When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the horse experiences is coming from you. There's a total connection
a true friendship
and the connection touches the soul completely. — Karen O

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. — Karen O

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

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore. — Karen O

I was a complete outsider in high school. — Karen O

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space. — Karen O

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace! — Karen O

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

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through. — Karen O

You have to open up on stage. — Karen O

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. — Karen O