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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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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.
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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 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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You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.
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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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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 was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
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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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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 haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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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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A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
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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 are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.
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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 was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
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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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I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.
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