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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
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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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I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
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You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.
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A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
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I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.
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There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.
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All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, Woo! - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.
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So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.
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Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
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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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I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.
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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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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 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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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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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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I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.
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I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
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There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.
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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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