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I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

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Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Neko Richelle Case
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I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.
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All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
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The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
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I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.
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Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.
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We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of looking cool. It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
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We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.
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I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
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There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.
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Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.
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When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.
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I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
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I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
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A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.
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I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.
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Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.
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I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.
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