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" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

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" I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued. "

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" I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic. "

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" I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff. "

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" I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild. "

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" On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago. "

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" I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be. "

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" I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.' "

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

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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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" I only work with people that are mysteries. "

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

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

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" I love being domestic: making coffee, just putting on a record, and just sitting, not doing anything. It's so great. "

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

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" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

" 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'm trying to learn how to cook. "

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" I love traveling. I love meeting people. I love performing, but it's hard to be gone and to not have a real life and to just get the emotional love that you need from the people you're traveling with. "

Sharon Van Etten

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

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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. "

Sharon Van Etten

" I've always liked to learn how to do things - I'm a hobby person. So I'll learn something at a beginner's level, then usually move on to the next thing. "

Sharon Van Etten

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

Sharon Van Etten

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

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

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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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" I love how small the world is. "

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" I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home. "

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" 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. "

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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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