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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.
Feist
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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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The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
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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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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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A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
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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 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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You just never set roots you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
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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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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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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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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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I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.
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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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