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" I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects. "
Sharon Van Etten
Health
Music
Journey
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess. "
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" I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary. "
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" You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you. "
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" I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal. "
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" I moved to New York to pursue music. "
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York
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New York
" 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. "
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You
" 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. "
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" I definitely wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I like to dress up like one. "
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" 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. "
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" Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes. "
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" I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm a really strong person. I've no regrets in my life. "
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" I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me. "
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" Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that. "
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" Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile. "
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" I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense. "
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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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