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" I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business. "

Sharon Van Etten

People

Business

Connected

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

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

Visit

" 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 trying to learn how to cook. "

" I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me. "

Sharon Van Etten

Challenge

Interesting

" I love how small the world is. "

" Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember everything, and time and place are like a center for me. "

" 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

" Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about. "

" 'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful. "

" 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. "

" In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on. "

" I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet. "

" I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary. "

" I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company. "

" I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. "

" On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago. "

" I was without my own place for nearly two years. It's such a cliche to be a homeless musician in New York, but luckily, I had amazing friends who let me stay with them. I visited my parents a lot. It's not like I was sleeping in my car, though I might have done that once... But it was by choice! "

Sharon Van Etten

Parents

Car

" I overthink everything. I'm just like, 'Wait, why do they want to hear me?' I start doubting myself. Other times, I'll just get so emotional during a song. Sometimes I'll cry while I'm singing. It's so weird. I'm such a baby. "

Sharon Van Etten

Baby

Start

" I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.' "

" I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day. "

" I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think. "

Sharon Van Etten

Back

I Am

" 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

" 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. "

" I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes. "

" As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations. "

Sharon Van Etten

Musicians

You

" 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. "

" I'm a late bloomer in music. "

" Both my brothers are drummers. "

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

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