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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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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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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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Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
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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 don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
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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 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 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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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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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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But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
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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'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'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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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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There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.
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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 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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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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