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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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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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If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.
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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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You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.
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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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I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.
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Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
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I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
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The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.
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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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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 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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There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...
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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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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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Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.
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Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
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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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All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
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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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