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Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.

Zooey Deschanel

Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that’s just the way they do things. It’s like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it’s due.
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Everything School Second Unique Writing
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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Christmas Holiday Love Things
I’ve been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record (“I Thought I Saw Your Face”) is about eight years old.
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School Song Writing
Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You’ve got to be kind to yourself You’ve got to be kind to yourself
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Be Kind Wells Worry
I think I’d say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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Reflection Specific Thinking
I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I’m the same person.
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Awareness Faces Girl
I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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Downtown Opportunity Spend Time
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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Baby Nice Song
It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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Eight Needs People
I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got…
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Ends Knows Learn Slow
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Feelings Tired Years
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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Beautiful Piano Two
I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.
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Interesting Knowing Thinking
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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People Space Thinking
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Christmas Singing Song

Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.

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