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Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.
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Express Myself Overreaching Show Universe
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
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Singers Songwriter Writing
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
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Guess Understood Used
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
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Song Thinking Visualized Writing
Every time there’s a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.
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Every Format Mold Time
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there’s more they don’t know.
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Confused Know More People Please
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
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Eggs Football Sorry
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it’s very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music.
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Eye Important People Photograph Understand
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.
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Electronic Music Rocks World Years
I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.
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Albums Narcissistic Three
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
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Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Chorus Song Writing
I’ve written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I’ll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time.
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Choirs Keyboard Past People Writing
Kids draw masterpieces – they’re the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools.
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Kids Thinking Writing
I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.
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Beginning Perfect Records Stick Thinking
There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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Body Half Mind

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