musical introspection Quotes

I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew fairly well and had a relationship with. And I'd think, well, what is it that I've never been able to do that this person or people are able to do with this song? Why haven't I been able to do it, and what can they do that I wish I could do? And then I'd try to do that. I'd start each day getting into the songs, and I'd think about how I might get closer to this music that I love, but haven't been able to make before.

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a weird thing, but my justification in my head as to why it's okay is because it's cryptic enough and there's enough meat around it to make it all okay and no one can really prove what any of the songs mean.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.