Bethany Cosentino quotes:

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac's Tusk. It's made up of a bunch of songs that don't really sound the same, but they all go really well together.

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

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.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

I feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.

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.

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, "They get it, man. They totally get it."

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

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?"

There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.

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.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, "Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?" But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.

It's important to stay creative.

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.

Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done.

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.

One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.