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I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
Feist
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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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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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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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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'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 in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
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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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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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Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
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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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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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A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
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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 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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