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• ‟ I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

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• ‟ I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

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• ‟ I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

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• ‟ I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

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• ‟ When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

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• ‟ When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

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• ‟ I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

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• ‟ I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

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• ‟ I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

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• ‟ I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

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