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" I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it. "
Lucy Dacus
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" I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself. "
Lucy Dacus
Myself
Good
Moments
" I'm going to name my daughter Emily. "
Lucy Dacus
Name
Daughter
Going
" Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up. "
Lucy Dacus
People
Myself
Negativity
" I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine. "
Lucy Dacus
Lipstick
Makeup
Routine
" Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things. "
Lucy Dacus
Understanding
Words
Me
" Four months after we released 'I Don't Want to Be Funny Anymore,' the album came out on EggHunt. Three months after that, we officially signed with Matador. That's not a very long time: half a year between the first flood and the final signing. "
Lucy Dacus
Time
Three
Long Time
" When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact. "
Lucy Dacus
Media
You
Think
" What's cool about Matador is that everyone I've met there is just so chill and really into what they're doing. Everyone that works there, there's just such a lack of ego, and there's such a commitment to what they're doing. They all like each other. "
Lucy Dacus
Commitment
Chill
Doing
" I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers. "
Lucy Dacus
Write
Become
Hear
" I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that. "
Lucy Dacus
Time
Bad
Worth
" Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic. "
Lucy Dacus
Me
Say
Song
" Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it. "
Lucy Dacus
Back
People
Away
" When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now. "
Lucy Dacus
Heart
Beauty
Reading
" Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' "
Lucy Dacus
Me
You
Writing
" I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit. "
Lucy Dacus
People
You
Expectations
" Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences. "
Lucy Dacus
House
Time
Songwriting
" I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history. "
Lucy Dacus
History
Music
Retain
" We were so limited on time for 'No Burden' that we didn't get to overthink anything. There was no going for the perfect take, or even going for three takes. It was kind of nice because what you're hearing is our first impulse. "
Lucy Dacus
You
Nice
Perfect
" When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song. "
Lucy Dacus
Singing
Song
Stop
" That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women. "
Lucy Dacus
Women
Static
Complaint
" I take photos, I used to make films, I journal incessantly, and I really value the documentation of life. Because it's almost like you are making something special by wanting to make it exist in an object - on paper or even just in the computer - making these recordings, making this music. "
Lucy Dacus
Value
Special
Music
" Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention. "
Lucy Dacus
Long
Writing
Acting
" I really enjoy navigating the business aspect of having a band, and there is a great amount of instinct. You don't wanna work with people who make you feel weird, even if they're super qualified. "
Lucy Dacus
Enjoy
People
Business
" Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph. "
Lucy Dacus
Bad
Celebration
Triumph
" There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes. "
Lucy Dacus
Writing
Always
Both Sides
" Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death. "
Lucy Dacus
Mind
Respect
She
" If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever. "
Lucy Dacus
Me
Myself
People
" It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things. "
Lucy Dacus
Know
Weird
Time
" A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do. "
Lucy Dacus
Honest
You
Bring
" Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos. "
Lucy Dacus
Person
Matter
Genre