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
So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music… — 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… — Mirah Copy Share Image
My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have my own… — Mirah Copy Share Image
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
