Feist

I live and die by puns.

— Feist

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.

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I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

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It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.

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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

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I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

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You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.

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I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

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All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

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There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

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I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and…

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Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

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I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club, and I liked that these simple little songs…

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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is…

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I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a…

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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was…

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I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the…

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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you…

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With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be…

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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when…

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I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone…

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I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided…

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When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100…

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I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

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I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

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A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

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I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a…

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I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact…

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I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got…

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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a…

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Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

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I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere…

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