I’ve always straddled a weird line – there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ve always straddled a weird line – there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside.
ZOOEY DESCHANELOne thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
ZOOEY DESCHANELGrowing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars’ kids at my school – but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn’t cool to show off that you had money.
ZOOEY DESCHANELClassic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
ZOOEY DESCHANELSummer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
ZOOEY DESCHANELOh 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?’
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
ZOOEY DESCHANELThere is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
ZOOEY DESCHANELWe all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies.
ZOOEY DESCHANELBut 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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELIt’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
ZOOEY DESCHANELI like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don’t try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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