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" 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. "

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" I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals. "

Lucy Dacus

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" People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.' "

Lucy Dacus

Living

People

" 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. "

Lucy Dacus

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Gift

" I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life. "

" Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially. "

" I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lucy Dacus

People

" My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool. "

" Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' "

Lucy Dacus

You

Writing

" It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs. "

" There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing. "

Lucy Dacus

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Spider

" 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. "

" That's my main complaint with Murakami: that he writes these complex males and then really static women. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life. "

" I couldn't have imagined working on a film I didn't believe in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future. "

" I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history. "

" I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully. "

" It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly. "

" I love Led Zeppelin! "

" I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself. "

" I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general. "

" 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

Myself

People