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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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My Life

Writing

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Spider

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Lucy Dacus

Real

Ideas

" A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking. "

" 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. "

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Lucy Dacus

You

Writing

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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. "

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Literature

People

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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

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