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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
Feist
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Feist
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Singer-Songwriter
Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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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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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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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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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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