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" When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish. "

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

" I don't want to bury anything in poetry. "

" My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Sharon Van Etten

Think

You

" You write these vulnerable songs as a sort of therapy, but if you don't confront people on a daily basis, it's not reality. There's still a bit of separation there. "

" I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot. "

Sharon Van Etten

Red

Friend

" The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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 would love to work with PJ Harvey some day. "

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

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

" I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well. "

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

Sharon Van Etten

Getting Better

Better

" If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody. "

" Both my brothers are drummers. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a really strong person. I've no regrets in my life. "

" In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader. "

Sharon Van Etten

Road

Summer

" 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

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

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

Sharon Van Etten

Keep

Visit

" 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