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" People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps. "

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" The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that. "

Sharon Van Etten

Singing

Music

Myself

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

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

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" 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. "

" Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. "

" It's really hard to watch yourself. "

" I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener. "

" 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 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. "

" I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating. "

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

" I'm a total goofball. "

Sharon Van Etten

Total

Goofball

" As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations. "

Sharon Van Etten

Musicians

You

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

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

" The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way. "

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

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

" I'm a lot more secure than I used to be. "

" I was pretty troubled for a long time. And I didn't know that. As a kid, I never talked about my emotions. My mom gave me a journal, but I didn't know what it meant. I just wrote all the time, not even thinking about it. But it also made me feel better. "

Sharon Van Etten

Mom

Long

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy. "

" In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again. "

" You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you. "

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

Baby

Start

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

" 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. "

" I moved to New York to pursue music. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Band

First