Sharon Van Etten Quotes

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Sharon Van Etten

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 26, 1981

Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy.

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I'm trying to learn how to cook.

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I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

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I'm a late bloomer in music.

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I wasn't a very good salesman.

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Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

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I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

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My goal is to become a therapist by the time I'm 50.

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In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

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I started playing, and people responded to it and connected with it and now, I don't even know what I'm really connecting with anymore or if I'm helping people. Now it's more of a business.

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My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious.

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I hate the term 'emo.' It turned into this genre of music, when all music, if you connect with it, is emotional.

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I was pretty troubled for a long time. And I didn't know that. As a kid, I never talked about my emotions. My mom gave me a journal, but I didn't know what it meant. I just wrote all the time, not even thinking about it. But it also made me feel better.

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My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

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I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

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I'm a sucker for a love song!

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Every time I re-perform a song, I gain some perspective.

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I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense.

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On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago.

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I overthink everything. I'm just like, 'Wait, why do they want to hear me?' I start doubting myself. Other times, I'll just get so emotional during a song. Sometimes I'll cry while I'm singing. It's so weird. I'm such a baby.

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