Cat Power

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's…

— Cat Power

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

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There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want…

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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

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I need to be able to face things.

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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics…

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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

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From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western,…

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For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day,…

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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

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Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

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I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by…

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I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.

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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you…

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I've always dressed like a dude.

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I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

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After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about…

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We can all be free Maybe not with words Maybe not with a look But with your mind

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I am human and I make mistakes.

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I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

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I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I…

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Oh I do believe In all the things you see What comes is better Than what came before

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Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or…

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I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love,…

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