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I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

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Emily Haines
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 25
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Singer-Songwriter
New Delhi district
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I like the idea that you would participate in mainstream culture, especially for young girls and young kids who are looking for an alternative. It's not that I'm superior, but I know that my heart is in it more than people who get into music for other reasons.
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Believe in the power of songs.
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This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.
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I really love traveling, I love playing.
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In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.
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Of course there are influences, of course there are things that are inspiring, but it's weird to think that I'm trying to keep a mental inventory of them and report them clearly to whomever might ask.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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I'm a chick for sure.
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Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
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You don't want to be conscious of everything.
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[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.
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It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.
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I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.
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Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.
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We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.
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I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.
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The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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But its crazy - like ten percent a year increase of children taking fucking anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!
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