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Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
Actor
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Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dancefloor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.
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With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.
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I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
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I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.
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No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.
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When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.
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It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
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I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
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There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.
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