Chasing Quotes by Annie E. Clark

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult…

— Annie E. Clark

I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'

— Annie E. Clark

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

— Annie E. Clark

The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why…

— Annie E. Clark

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile…

— Annie E. Clark

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements.…

— Annie E. Clark

It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole…

— Annie E. Clark

I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but…

— Annie E. Clark

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I…

— Annie E. Clark

I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore.…

— Annie E. Clark

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

— Annie E. Clark

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

— Annie E. Clark