That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about,… — Mirah Copy Share Image
You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then… — Mirah Copy Share Image
What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot going on. — Mirah Copy Share Image
I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But different mediums have a different relationship with the public. If you're in a performing medium it's hard not to place some weight on whether or not people come to your… — Mirah Copy Share
My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own limitations in terms of what instruments I'm actually proficient at and what I can do myself, so I really love working with people on the production end; just really going for it with orchestration and instrumentation… — Mirah Copy Share
Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an artist by… — Mirah Copy Share Image
