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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.' "

Sharon Van Etten

Love

Love Is

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" I love how small the world is. "

" 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. "

" There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's. "

" I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation. "

" Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too. "

Sharon Van Etten

Life

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

System

Different

" Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want. "

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

" I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way. "

Sharon Van Etten

Way

Feel

" 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. "

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

" 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 only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time. "

" If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore. "

" 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. "

" One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band. "

Sharon Van Etten

Name

Band

" I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

Visit

" 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. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Think

You

" When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time. "

" Time is very weird. "

" Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me. "

Sharon Van Etten

Car

You

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

" Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective. "

" I'm a total goofball. "

Sharon Van Etten

Total

Goofball

" I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does. "

" 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