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" I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot. "

Sharon Van Etten

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" I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally. "

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" Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging. "

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" My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying. "

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" I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional. "

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" I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating. "

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" When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time. "

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" I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally. "

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" I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff. "

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" I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic. "

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" Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile. "

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" I only work with people that are mysteries. "

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" I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?' "

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" I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home. "

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" I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through. "

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" I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit. "

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" Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy. "

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" I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer. "

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" Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me. "

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" I'm attracted to music made by people who let themselves be emotional. They really care about what they do, and we believe in what they say. "

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" I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me. "

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" You write these vulnerable songs as a sort of therapy, but if you don't confront people on a daily basis, it's not reality. There's still a bit of separation there. "

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" When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish. "

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" Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. "

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" My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy. "

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" I'm a late bloomer in music. "

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" Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. "

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" The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom. "

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" I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great. "

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