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" 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. "

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Connected

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

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" I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again. "

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

" Singing a song like 'Your Love Is Killing Me,' people are worried about me. My mother called me, like, 'What's going on with you? Are you alright? I thought you were doing fine.' And I'm like, 'I am doing fine. It's just, this is what I do.' "

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Love Is

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

" I used to hyperventilate, but I don't do that anymore. "

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Anymore

Used

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective. "

" 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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Different

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through. "

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

" 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. "

" Time is very weird. "

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

" If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore. "

" Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth. "

" You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you. "

" 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

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

" Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too. "

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Life

Writing

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

" I'm a lot more secure than I used to be. "