American - Musician | February 26, 1981 -
'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful.
Sharon Van Etten
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I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.
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I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard.
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I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.
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The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.
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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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Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about.
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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.
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I'm a lot more secure than I used to be.
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You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you.
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I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.
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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.'
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