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" Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' "
Lucy Dacus
Me
You
Writing
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" I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion. "
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People
" In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that. "
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" I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance. "
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" I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future. "
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Need
" 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. "
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" I'm going to name my daughter Emily. "
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" My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift. "
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He
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Gift
" There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them. "
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" I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me. "
Lucy Dacus
Literature
Me
People
" 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. "
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People
You
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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. "
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Feel
Like
" I love Led Zeppelin! "
Lucy Dacus
Love
Led Zeppelin
Led
" I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully. "
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Believe
Respect
People
" 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. "
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Time
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" Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday. "
Lucy Dacus
Parents
School
High School
" 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
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Business
" 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
" If you can come out from under pain, why wouldn't you? You definitely can. There's no question. "
Lucy Dacus
Out
Come
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" In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that. "
Lucy Dacus
Movies
Work
School
" It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly. "
Lucy Dacus
You
Evil
Child
" You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity. "
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You
Creative
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" Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life. "
Lucy Dacus
Know
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" I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong. "
Lucy Dacus
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Time
" People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.' "
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More
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People
" Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph. "
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Bad
Celebration
Triumph
" I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment. "
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People
Career
Funny
" From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people. "
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Myself
Beginning
Women
" I would not say that my relationships are becoming shallow; if anything, some of them are really being tested in a way that I'm so thankful for my friends that call me and still want to talk. "
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Friends
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Relationships
" That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women. "
Lucy Dacus
Women
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Complaint
" 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. "
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