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

Sharon Van Etten

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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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