Latest Neko Case Quotes from Interviews

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• There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.

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  Badass, Crazy, Fighting

• Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to see him. And, being a songwriter, you have to have experiences and do things. You can't just go on tour all the time, otherwise you get nothing to write about. It's finally at a point where the balance is perfectly right.

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  Dog, Writing, Balance

• I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.

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  Integrity, People, Guy

• The only ones that stand out to me are people like Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock, who can make you totally cry while their music is so funny and they're hilarious. They know they're great but they also don't think they're better than you and they really invite you into their show.

  Neko Case

  Thinking, People, Cry

• I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

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  Emotional, Style, Kind

• There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

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  Song, Art, Touching

• I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

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  Hard Times, Important, Audience

• A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.

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  Wife, Community, Remember

• I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other. Vanity is considered the worst possible sin. I've gotten better about having to describe things. If you're going to make a record and people are going to write about you, it's your responsibility to answer questions. It's validating - I'm just very clumsy.

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  Writing, Responsibility, People

• I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

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  Remember

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much about the Freudian theory of dreams; it's probably more interesting than your average hippie dream dictionary, but it's got to be a lot deeper than that. It can't all be about sex all the time, so I don't know if Freud is right either.

  Neko Case

  Dream, Hippie, Thinking

  Source: music.avclub.com

• Around 2010, I kind of looked up and said, I'm 40 years old. You know, I chose music. I don't have a husband. I don't have any kids. Like, I chose music. So, I had to make a decision. Like, do I want to do something else, or do I want to go from journeyman to master? And I realized, I want to be a really good musician.

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  Husband, Kids, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

  Neko Case

  Boss

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

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  Divorced, Humans

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

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  Relief, Huge, Universe

• I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

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  Champion, Important, Physical Activity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

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  Ideas, Waste, Awesomeness

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

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  Giving, Feelings, Balance

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

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  Believe, Band, Want

• I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

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  Jobs, People, Musician

• I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.

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  Writing, Thinking, Important

• I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

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  Taken, Picture Taken

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

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  Long, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

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  Real, America, Sick

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.

  Neko Case

  Fun, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com