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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."
"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."
"I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying."
"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."
"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."
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"I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated."
"Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own."
"I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it."
"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great."
"Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme."
"I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever."
"The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it."
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