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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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Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Neko Richelle Case
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I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.
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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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Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.
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All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
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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 should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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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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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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I like to think that I'm not old yet.
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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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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
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You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
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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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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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