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" 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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" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

I Am

People

Write

" I have a hard time not wearing my heart on my sleeve and answering people honestly. You know, my friends warn me that I should be more guarded 'cause sometimes I am too honest and open, but it's also just who I am. "

Sharon Van Etten

I Am

People

" 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. "

" I'm a late bloomer in music. "

" 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 like having a home. I like having a place to return to. "

" When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through. "

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

" I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention. "

" 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 can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Going

People

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

" I'm a sucker for a love song! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious. "

" I'm still learning how to be comfortable touring. I haven't found that balance yet. "

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

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

" I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer. "

Sharon Van Etten

Getting Better

Better

" Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about. "

" 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

" 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. "