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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.
Neko Case
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Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
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City of Alexandria
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Neko Richelle Case
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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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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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I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.
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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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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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The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.
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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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When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything.
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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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When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”
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All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
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Around 2010, I kind of looked up and said, I'm 40 years old. You know, I chose music. I don't have a husband. I don't have any kids. Like, I chose music. So, I had to make a decision. Like, do I want to do something else, or do I want to go from journeyman to master? And I realized, I want to be a really good musician.
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I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
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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 think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
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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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You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
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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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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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