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" I love traveling. I love meeting people. I love performing, but it's hard to be gone and to not have a real life and to just get the emotional love that you need from the people you're traveling with. "

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" I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way. "

Sharon Van Etten

Way

Feel

" I definitely wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I like to dress up like one. "

Sharon Van Etten

Dress

" I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write. "

" I'm a total goofball. "

Sharon Van Etten

Total

Goofball

" Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that. "

" I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs. "

" I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild. "

" I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does. "

" 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. "

" I was pretty troubled for a long time. And I didn't know that. As a kid, I never talked about my emotions. My mom gave me a journal, but I didn't know what it meant. I just wrote all the time, not even thinking about it. But it also made me feel better. "

Sharon Van Etten

Mom

Long

" If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody. "

" I totally lucked out by meeting a lot of amazing people. I guess it stems from going to shows and being confident enough to meet people and be able to talk to them like a normal person rather than have my head down all the time. "

" I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention. "

" Time is very weird. "

" It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it. "

" I wasn't a very good salesman. "

" Both my brothers are drummers. "

" My career is based off of me talking about my emotions. "

" It's really hard to watch yourself. "

" 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. "

" There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's. "

" All the records I keep are like friends I visit. "

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

Visit

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

" Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal. "

" Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging. "

" My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious. "

" I love how small the world is. "

" People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps. "

Sharon Van Etten

Think

You

" I'm a sucker for a love song! "

" 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. "