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" I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well. "

Sharon Van Etten

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" I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30. "

Sharon Van Etten

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First

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I moved to New York to pursue music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

Life

Writing

" 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 hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight. "

" 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. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

Visit

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

" I don't want to bury anything in poetry. "

" I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard. "

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

Car

You

" 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. "

" I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically. "

" I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way. "

" I wasn't a very good salesman. "

" Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me. "

Sharon Van Etten

Going

People

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

" I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel. "

" I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "