Karen O
Karen O
Karen Lee Orzolek, better known by her stage name Karen O, is a South Korean-born American singer and musician. She is the lead vocalist for American rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
NationalitySouth Korean
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 November 1978
horse true-friend soul
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.
water adults embarrassing
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.
steps gears kind
My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
records sophomore difficult
Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
stage
You have to open up on stage.
culture hunger synthetic
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.
stars rocks mercury
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.
self years self-destructive
I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
artist self giving
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!
rocks guy percent
Being on the road with rock, its pretty much 90 percent guys.
years band certain
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
space california relaxation
For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
bass aces
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
ignorance dark zeppelins
I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.