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" What's cool about Matador is that everyone I've met there is just so chill and really into what they're doing. Everyone that works there, there's just such a lack of ego, and there's such a commitment to what they're doing. They all like each other. "

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" There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing. "

Lucy Dacus

Want

Spider

" A breakup is a state of mind that needs encouragement and needs hopeful, forward thinking. "

" I'm never writing as a character. "

" Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday. "

" My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift. "

Lucy Dacus

Church

Gift

" Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things. "

Lucy Dacus

Understanding

Words

" It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly. "

" Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' "

Lucy Dacus

You

Writing

" I would not say that my relationships are becoming shallow; if anything, some of them are really being tested in a way that I'm so thankful for my friends that call me and still want to talk. "

" A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do. "

" When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact. "

" Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death. "

" I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life? "

" I really believe in hopefulness and respect people that are hopeful. I think I'm at my best when I think hopefully. "

" I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record. "

" It's one thing to make something, and then it's another thing to put it in front of other people. "

" I love Led Zeppelin! "

" It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs. "

" The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning. "

" My favorite music is when the sound is supplementing the message. I don't think it's dramatic; it's cinematic. "

" Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic. "

Lucy Dacus

Say

Song

" In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that. "

" I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general. "

" Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph. "

" You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things. "

" From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people. "

" Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what's holding you back to get away from it. "

" We were so limited on time for 'No Burden' that we didn't get to overthink anything. There was no going for the perfect take, or even going for three takes. It was kind of nice because what you're hearing is our first impulse. "

" I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history. "

" Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down. "