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When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish.

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.

Sharon Van Etten

I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas.

Sharon Van Etten

I moved to New York to pursue music.

Sharon Van Etten

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

Sharon Van Etten

I didn't think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it's harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it's just them listening to you read your diary.

Sharon Van Etten

Singing a song like 'Your Love Is Killing Me,' people are worried about me. My mother called me, like, 'What's going on with you? Are you alright? I thought you were doing fine.' And I'm like, 'I am doing fine. It's just, this is what I do.'

Sharon Van Etten

If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore.

Sharon Van Etten

I'm a total goofball.

Sharon Van Etten

Time is very weird.

Sharon Van Etten

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.

Sharon Van Etten

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

Sharon Van Etten

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Sharon Van Etten

I go back to things all the time. It's really nice, too, like when I'm going through some kind of a writer's block, and I'm feeling uninspired, I go to some of my oldest songs from over the years and sift through them, and one thing that's very nice is to see how I've grown up a little bit. A little bit.

Sharon Van Etten

If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody.

Sharon Van Etten

'Imperfiction' will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.

Sharon Van Etten

I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

Sharon Van Etten

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

Sharon Van Etten

'The Boatman's Call' is amazing; it's an album of love songs, really beautiful.

Sharon Van Etten

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.

Sharon Van Etten

I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn't come second-nature to me.

Sharon Van Etten

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

Sharon Van Etten

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

Sharon Van Etten

Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy.

Sharon Van Etten

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Sharon Van Etten

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.

Sharon Van Etten

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

Sharon Van Etten

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.

Sharon Van Etten

When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish.

Sharon Van Etten

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

Sharon Van Etten

People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps.

Sharon Van Etten

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

Sharon Van Etten

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

Sharon Van Etten

Both my brothers are drummers.

Sharon Van Etten

Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes.

Sharon Van Etten

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

Sharon Van Etten

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.

Sharon Van Etten