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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.
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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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 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 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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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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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 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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Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
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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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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 haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.
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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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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.
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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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It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.
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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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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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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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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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