I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she’s a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I’ve always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
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I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
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