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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time. "

" I'm going to name my daughter Emily. "

" I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record. "

" I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you. "

" 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

People

" 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

" I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like maybe that helped me to not feel super entitled to a lot of things as a kid. "

Lucy Dacus

Kid

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. "

" Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career in entertainment. "

" 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. "

" Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people. "

" 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