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" I'm unqualified to do anything other than music. "
St. Vincent
Other
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Anything
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" I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything. "
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" I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma. "
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" I love Robert Fripp. You know what I really appreciate about Robert Fripp? He always dresses appropriately for the occasion. When he's on stage, he's a Dapper Dan. "
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" I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible. "
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" I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it. "
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" I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews. "
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" One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that. "
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" Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like. "
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" In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful. "
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" Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night. "
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" I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them. "
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Man
" I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally. "
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" I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing. "
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" I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow. "
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" My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it. "
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" I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach. "
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" I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.' "
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" All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way. "
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" I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear. "
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" The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too. "
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" I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in. "
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" Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part. "
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" I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do. "
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" I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. "
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" To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road. "
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" And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain. "
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" A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing. "
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